Word: demandingly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact then remains that a local demand exists for a type of movie the U.T. does not generally supply. When distributors refuse those films to the HLU because, of competition with the University Theater, that theater must adopt a policy favorable to this type of movie. Without this change in policy, local moviegoers will be deprived of a chance to see the kind of movies they have demonstrated they want...
...whereby an employee at any one of Seagram's 11 plants can take university courses on any subject, wholly or partly at the company's expense, depending on his grades. An arrangement between Seagram's and the University of Louisville makes it possible to set up any course in demand by ten or more Seagram's employees...
Much of the argument between utility companies and the Government concerned timing. The Government could plan-and spend-on a basis of demand ten years hence (and write off some of the losses as "flood control"). The utilities had to restrict their planning to two or three years ahead, to be reasonably sure of their market. One way or the other, it looked as if the U.S. would lick the power shortage, though the debate on how to do it would go on for months...
...there was more than a year's stockpile of wool on hand, about 60% of it the finer type raised chiefly in Australia and used in worsteds. Wool men feared that the surplus would take 13 years to work off and prices would tumble. Demand did fall for the poorer wool used in making soft fabrics, which fewer & fewer buyers wanted. But everyone wanted hard worsteds. The unexpected demand cleaned out the fine-wool stockpile (but left the U.S. with a stockpile of low-grade wool) and caused demand to run far ahead of supply...
...Korda and Rank. At least 1,000 employees had been laid off in recent months, and another 500 had warning notices that they might be sacked soon. Last week heads of three big movie unions urged the government to help stem the firings and to grant the producers' demand for a rebate on its 40% admissions...