Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left of the New Deal. But whereas President Roosevelt has unnecessarily alienated the support of Business and established a personal and factional government, Governor Landon, if elected, will be checked by a Democratic Senate, hence forced to constitute a Government of "national union" such as the parlous times demand...
...usually succumb to the tick fever now prevalent in Argentina. For the same reason U. S. owners are unwilling to ship their bulls to South America on a loan basis. Owners of the best bulls, in fact, generally refuse to ship their prizes anywhere at all, demand that the cows be brought to them. Nevertheless for many months Argentine cattlemen have had their eyes on two fine Holstein-Friesian bulls at the U. S. Department of Agriculture station in Beltsville, Md.: Chief Piebe Ormsby Burke and Double Gerber Colantha Hero, both renowned for transmitting high milk and butterfat productivity...
...steel, copper booms only when general business booms. Its price is determined by what the traffic will bear. For some time the differential between U. S. and foreign prices has been decreasing. Since June 1935, the U. S. price has risen 1 ¼? on the strength of gradually increasing demand from home industry. That demand is currently giving U. S. copper men their best year since 1930. Since the first of 1935, foreign copper has risen nearly 3? primarily on the strength of Europe's rearmament programs...
...crisis in a nutshell, the Arabs on strike demand the cessation of Jewish immigration to Palestine and have put British High Commissioner General Sir Arthur Grenfell null sufficiently on the spot to make him welcome mediation between Britons and Arabs by the Foreign Minister of Iraq, Nuri Pasha as Said. This Moslem statesman sent up a trial balloon to test Christian public opinion by letting it be known in Jerusalem that he thought the British were on the point of closing the immigration gates of Palestine with a new policy of "No More Jews," temporarily at least. No sooner...
...small buyers no one could tell whether the recent platinum boom was caused by a rush of buying or a reluctance to sell. Last week the air was full of conjectures. Least ominous guess was that there had been a sudden rise in the marriage rate, causing a demand for platinum wedding rings. Retail jewelers in convention last week announced jewelry sales were up 30% from a year ago, sales of diamonds (with which platinum most often goes...