Word: demands
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...weekly newspaper, The Woman Voter, run by women for women, began publication in Clarksville, Miss. Miss Minnie Brewer, daughter of former Governor Brewer of Mississippi, is the editor-in-chief. Declared Miss Brewer: " I expect the paper to fire the zeal of women to demand a higher order of things...
...significance of this event, called the most important development in socialism since the Russian revolution, is that the fundamental issue will be debated under conditions where its advocates support a programme including neither arson nor bomb-throwing, and where those opposed will not demand jail sentences for Socialists at the mention of the word. The present opportunity is the first a government has had to discuss so vital a problem in the atmosphere of a budget debate, the first time that socialism has had as cool attention as a financial report...
...Washington Arms Conference the Chinese delegates brought up the treaty for review and revision. Japan made several important concessions, but the Chinese Government was not satisfied and said that it would bring the whole question up again at some future date. According to reports received from China the recent demand for abrogation of the treaty was to provide an opportunity of restating China's grievances. The younger men believe that the reinstatement must eventually be made by barrage and machine...
...surpassed even the unusually active month of March, 1920, which followed the futile steel strike of 1919, and is now only some 3 or 4% below the huge war-time output attained in September, 1918, just before the Armistice. Despite this sensational rate of production recently attained, however, the demand is so urgent and extensive that new price advances have occurred in pig, and in both semi-finished steel and several steel products. Last month the Steel Corporation's unfilled orders-a favorite barometer of general business conditions in this country-increased 373,000 tons. The independent companies, however...
...demand for iron and steel comes from a variety of sources- indicative of the wide extent of the business recovery this winter. Railroads are purchasing much needed equipment, as was seen when the $31,500,000 issue of Pennsylvania Railroad 5% Equipment Trust Certificates was bought out last week. Another heavy buyer has been the automobile industry, which is preparing for another banner year. The increasing production attained by oil companies has led to large purchases. Likewise, the building boom is absorbing quantities of structural steel. In addition, curtailment of operation in the Ruhr district has caused appreciable foreign purchases...