Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...approximately equal increase of revenue if the bill was to become law. Congressmen had a choice of passing a bill which would fulfill their promises to postmen-voters, which every one knew the President would veto, or of passing a bill which would satisfy the President's demand for revenue, but would offend various users of the mails. The House favored the latter course. The Senate was inclined to the former. The publishers had risen in violent protest when it was suggested that their rates be raised. Both Senate and House yielded to them. Farmers' organizations protested against...
...preceding year−mainly the result of the decline in flush California output by 32,812,000 barrels from the total established in 1923. Crude oil storage increased 19,000,000 barrels, against 79,578,000 in 1923 and 79,000,000 in 1922. Meanwhile, the record of annual demand for petroleum products was again broken last year...
Production and imports of gasoline in 1924 totaled 9,089,555,000 gallons− an increase of 1,342,297,000 or 17.3% over 1923. Domestic demand and exports last year aggregated 8,984,952,000 gallons-an increase over 1923 of 1,428,800,000 gallons, or 19%. Thus the surplus supply of gasoline for 1924 was only 104,603,000 gallons−just about four days' average daily consumption. Total gasoline stocks on Dec. 31, 1924, were 1,179,504,000−equal to 48 days' average consumption. Although refiners last year manufactured...
...Discussion of the Protocol to the Covenant of the League of Nations (TIME, Oct. 13), in which the famed formula of disarmament, arbitration and security was embodied. It was expected that the security issue will be dropped and that Britain will demand postponement of the entire problem until the autumn...
...Berlin, a grand caterwaul was raised. It was alleged, not without reason, that to pay the Rumanian bill would be to create a dangerous precedent ; for other ex-enemy countries might well demand special payments outside the Experts' Plan and saddle Germany with debts that would wreck the Plan, which was designed to collect all that is collectable from...