Word: demandingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what did the great abundance mean to the nation? What did it mean to high prices? If the law of supply & demand were allowed to work, prices would already be dropping, some farmers would be facing financial losses. No one wanted the farmers to lose money. So the law of supply & demand had been amended by the law which said that the Government would guarantee the farmer certain prices...
Tire men happily admitted that they had badly misjudged demand. With over 4,000,000 cars and trucks coming off assembly lines this year, they now thought they could sell 80 million tires in the next twelve months. That would keep production one-fourth above the prewar level well into...
Said the New York Daily News, in U.S. idiom which no doubt would fascinate Jake: "This demand that Lomakin be jerked the hell out of here should have a wholesome effect on the overlords of the Kremlin...
Exchange of Prisoners. The Russians arrested the city government's anti-Communist coal administrator, who had defied a Russian demand for his resignation but imprudently stayed at work in his Russian-sector office. The British arrested the German head of the Russian-sector criminal police, who had gone to the British sector to watch a boxing match. Then the Russians topped everything to date by manhandling and seizing Thomas P. Headen, deputy chief of A.M.G.'s Information Control Division, who had ventured too close to an unguarded part of the British-Russian line. The Communist...
...that a similar slump last year ended quickly when retail stores began to lay in winter stocks. Others take a more serious view. Because cotton mills abroad are producing again, exports are off 10% from 1947's record high. At home the first flush of the postwar demand for cotton goods has worn off; New York bargain basements, for instance, are selling shirts for $2.95 which last year brought nearly twice as much. To many a Worth Streeter it looks as if the war-swollen cotton trade is going to be trimmed back to peacetime size...