Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Both the money and security markets have this month experienced a relaxed demand and at this writing both are beginning to give indications of renewed firmness. Rail and oil shares are active and rising, with most other groups still in a waiting mood. Exports of gold continue heavy, about $100,000,000 of the yellow metal having gone abroad since Dec. 1 of last year...
...steel industry appears moderately and wholesomely on the upgrade. Operations are at about 94% of capacity, with rising prices. Similarly, crude oil and gasoline stocks are showing marked reductions; demand is good and an upward movement of both crude and refined prices has appeared in the mid-continent and other fields...
...reassuring sign to manufacturers and traders has been the tendency toward an expansion in our export trade. This, coupled with increasingly good and apparently nonspeculative domestic demand, seemingly indicates business prosperity through the spring at least...
Colonel Ayres declared that, while European manufacturing competition would ultimately make itself felt here, there was little to be feared from this quarter in the near future; indeed, just now, the European industrial revival was creating an unusual demand for U.S. raw meterials and semi-finished products, as shown in our recently expanding exports...
...CRIMSON appears the first offering of The Crime. It is a cold world in which to launch an infant "colyum". The young thing must fend for itself from the first moment of its inky existence. Some critics will look for hidden wisdom between its lines; some will always demand a lofty humor which mellows inwardly but never cracks a smile; and some will even expect the silly young thing to talk sense. But these hypercritical fellows do not count...