Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...schools which confer the degree of Doctor of Optometry, seven require three years of study; three (Ohio State, University of Southern California, Columbia) demand four years. Opticians are simply craftsmen who make lenses and mountings, or tradesmen who sell them, or both. For them no formal training is required, but they are unlikely to prosper if they lack skill and experience...
...gold. Then uses for it began gradually to be found, in jewelry, in electrical machinery, in chemistry. Before the War platinum rose to $45 an oz. Russia produced 95% of it, recovered up to 300,000 oz. a year. The War shut off the Russian supply, sharply increased the demand, for platinum is used not only as a catalyst in the manufacture of nitrates and sulphuric acid, but also in the detonating devices of shells. In the U. S. the Wartime price was fixed at $105 an oz., and newly developed deposits in Colombia could not fill the demand. After...
Last week the Seattle Guild's demand for the reinstatement of Lynch and Armstrong was refused. The Seattle Central Labor Council promptly announced that the Post-Intelligencer was "unfair to organized labor." The Guild ordered its membership out, claimed 40 newsmen from the Post-Intelligencer's staff of 68 answered the strike call. A picket line around the publishing plant was formed, aided by the redoubtable Teamsters', Loggers' and Longshoremen's unions. Careful to explain that they "were not on a sympathetic strike," the Post-Intelligencer's typographical men simply refused to pass through...
Social equality "for Negroes, in the abstract, is achieved in the North by the simple process of passing laws guaranteeing Blacks the right to demand admission to all theatres, hotels, restaurants, beauty parlors, etc. New York, Illinois and Ohio have long had such laws against Jim Crowism. Pennsylvania got one when Democratic Governor Earle took office (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). But nowhere, as most intelligent Negroes admit, art: such laws consistently enforced against the strong but silent sentiment of the White majority opposed to close social contact with Blacks. When a bumptious blackamoor attempts to invoke such a statute...
...program, before cotton loans were instituted, before the Hoover Farm Board started to thrash around in the futures markets, Will Clay ton's favorite hate was the tariff. Said he, when ploughing-under was rampant: "There is only one means of preserving a correct balance between supply and demand in a great world commodity like cotton, and that is through the corrective influences of competitive price levels established in the free markets of the world - a harsh method, perhaps, but the only one that works. . . . Our present cotton policy means the complete loss within a comparatively short time...