Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate Bone and his junior colleague, Lewis Baxter Schwellenbach, have been faithful Roosevelt men, rewarded with plenty of PWA and WPA money. Bone has shown some independence: he supported Pat Harrison for Senate Leader against the White House demand for "Dear Alben" Barkley, he voted to override the President's bonus veto, and he voted against the Reorganization Bill this year. With these major exceptions, however, Bone's record is that of a consistent New Deal Senator...
...again at Godesberg, that the colonial question remained a problem, he officially opened the negotiations. Our claim is to all our former colonies. Whether, when the actual moment for bargaining for them comes, we shall show restraint is for the future to decide. If we do, then we shall demand compensation for whatever we do not claim...
Motormaker Sloan said he expected consumer buying to be "substantially improved over that existing during the past few months.... To assist in carrying on its stabilization of employment program, the corporation will again build substantial inventories in excess of retail demand during the winter months. . . ." Not to be outdone, President K. T. Keller of Chrysler Corp. announced the rehiring of 34,000 men since August 1, the restoration of March salary cuts. Said he: "Current business is brisk. . . . Stocks of cars in dealers' hands are 31,500 today, as against 98,000 at this time a year...
Hopping mad, certain independents surreptitiously undercut the official prices Big Steel had set for the industry. For a while Big Steel ignored this as a petty annoyance, but fortnight ago the buying demand of the automobile industry forced even Big Steel to shade its prices some $4 a ton, lowering cold-rolled sheets to $62 compared with $73 last spring. When an independent then cut the price another $2, Philip Murray was not the only steel man to fret. With the industry working at only 53% of capacity, it was clear that such price-cutting, if continued, must mean heavy...
...Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey] command rich natural resources, unexploited so far. They will now increase production of agricultural products for which Germany has a special demand, such as cotton and oil cake, and will adapt them for German quality demands. Already about half the foreign trade of these three countries is conducted with Germany and in connection with the crisis-proof German economy this enabled them to overcome the last world economic crisis...