Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kenosha, where also is the famed bedmaking Simmons Co. Scotch-descended Mr. Nash's specialty is cost-paring and Nash can now break even if it sells i.ooo cars a month. In its early years it jumped production rapidly but canny Mr. Nash sensed the tapering demand, stopped his expansion in time. During the trying third quarter ending Aug. 31, Nash came out $183,000 better than even while General Motors, whose third quarter ends in September, showed a $4,400,000 loss. Chairman Nash works no less now that he is chairman; most Nash papers pass over...
...augment that it constitutes a consumers' tax, designed to shift to one class a tremendous amount of purchasing power, is no objection to the plan. Obviously that is the purpose of any farm relief scheme. The increased purchasing power of the farmer will soon make itself felt in the demand for industrial products. There can be no true prosperity in this country as long as a large part of the population is on the verge of bankrupted. Throughout the latter half of our history there has been a shifting a labor away from agriculture, but the movement has not kept...
...nonsense to ask a student to read for a tutor only with the indeterminate end in view of gaining a liberal education--nonsense to warn his tutor against cramming. Nobody can cram for an intelligent examination--such as the Cambridge Tripos in English--and until we provide examinations which demand and measure intelligent work, tutors will continue either to cram their students or, as the case may be, to struggle against catering to the student's practical needs in an effort to conform to a highly unsatisfactory system...
...years. I make some attempt to ascertain the student's interests and abilities, and to help him start work in those fields he is best adapted to: we fill in b background, and pursue literary hobbies, establishing a method of study. In the senior year the impending examinations demand that we fill obvious gaps in the field as a whole, so that the student has nodding acquaintance with all the major writers...
...Come on, ma'am! My woman's mighty bad." At first the mountain people were slow in accepting help from the Frontier Nurses, suspicious of such things as vaccination until it was pointed out that the same thing was done to their hogs. Now the demand for nurses is so great that babies must be booked beforehand. In seven years 1,000 deliveries have been made without a single maternal death from pregnancy or labor...