Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Marching is not strutting. Public demand is not an obscure military convention. Colonel Stewart puts the case in its true light...
...obscure military convention which compels the Corps of Cadets to execute a few simple little movements on such occasions is an insistent demand on the part of the public that they do so. The cadets do not do this because they enjoy it, but because they feel it a duty to the public which supports their Alma Mater...
...many months the Treasury Department has been puzzling over the expense of furnishing the country with currency. Working at capacity the Bureau of Printing and Engraving has hardly been able to keep up with the demand for fresh dollar bills as those in use wear out. It has been obliged to put "fresh" bills into circulation without allowing them to age and toughen. The result is that they have worn out even more rapidly. Other factors, the handling of paper money by garage men with greasy hands, etc., have contributed toward making the life of dollar bills shorter and shorter...
Some of the "prohibition beverage" securities, however, are not so much, competitors of alcoholic drinks or supplanters as accessories thereto. If bootlegging were suddenly abolished, many temperance-drink companies would be hurt rather than helped, since much of the present demand for their products arises from the desire of consumers of green Scotch whisky to mitigate its "iodine" and "nicotine" taste...
...TIME, Nov. 9). Out of a total of 941 votes cast, only 268 favored the measure. The reason was not far to seek. At present every exchange member knows that his "seat" is worth in excess of $130,000. Should more seats be added, the laws of supply and demand would function to lower that value. No exchange member wishes his "equity" to be affected. Therefore the present excessively heavy movements in securities on the exchange (TIME, Oct. 26, et seq) will continue to take place without an increase in the number of the opulently seated. The Governing Board...