Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mind to expect such a radical change so suddenly," flashed the Premier, and his hearers bowed forward eagerly. Did this mean that he was going to buck the Navy's demand for Japanese equality? Suavely Admiral Okada covered himself, "I repeat that it is not in my mind to expect such radical changes so suddenly but I do not favor the present ratio principle. It hurts the self-respect of nations...
...left the League of Nations, will not give up the South Sea Islands she received as "mandates" from the League, but means to keep them as integral parts of her Empire. By the time Premier Okada was through, most correspondents present were convinced that in failing to demand parity now, he was merely pulling for the present a punch which Japan will deliver as soon as she dares. But the Okada answers, when cabled to Washington, gave Secretary of the Navy Claude A. Swanson a fine chance to proclaim loudly and publicly for the Roosevelt Administration the U. S. naval...
...they wanted dresses for particularly grand occasions and were willing to spend as much as $1,000 for a brocaded ball gown. For everyday clothes?street dresses, afternoon frocks, sportswear? the grandes dames considered the little dressmaker around the corner good enough. But after the War there was little demand for expensive robes-de-style and no money to pay for them. So the couturiers set out to supplant the little seamstress around the corner by designing all women's clothes, even down to the negligee. These designs, simple, practical, not too expensive, brought the haute couture down from...
...last week's markets&151;a record of which any investment trust might well be proud. Chief reason for the small decline (14%) lay in the fact that the Roosevelt dollar had pushed the value of his holdings in Hudson Bay Mining. The current demand for gold shares and the higher price of gold had pushed his holdings in Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co. from less than $4,000,000 in 1930 to nearly $10,000,000 last week...
...Legal beer helped boost the net profit of Owens-Illinois Glass Co., which has a machine to make 240 bottles a minute, to $4.208.000 for the year ended June 30, 1933. Beer bottle sales were beginning to stabilize when Repeal opened up the demand for wine and liquor bottles which are not regularly refilled. Owens-Illinois' net profit for the year ended June 30, 1934 was up nearly...