Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trend of affairs appears to demand occasional new coinage to facilitate coherent verbal exchange of ideas...
...present crisis and arbitrating. If war comes, certainly the American stand will determine its outcome. Why not speak now and show the enemy what must be the result if they begin war? Pressure for the repeal of the Neutrality Act has been tremendous, and Congress should act upon that demand at its first chance. Then Germany and its cohorts will have been warned that American will not watch one man steal, without chastisement, the whole of Central Europe...
...Herr Benes," shouted the Dictator, "to give the Sudeten Germans gifts. What the Germans demand is the right of self-determination. . . . The talks and half-promises of Benes cannot go on any longer. . . . President Benes has engaged in tactics showing that he desires to negotiate under the methods of the League of Nations-that cannot go on forever. . . . In Palestine the Arabs stand defenseless, and perhaps deserted. The Sudeten Germans are neither defenseless nor deserted. . . . I serve peace if I leave no doubt that the oppression of 3,500,000 Sudeten Germans is to end and be replaced...
Theories grow fast in any sort of advertising business, and radiomen have a theory to account for the behavior of their industry in hard times. Sponsored radio entertainment, they argue, creates a demand not only for the product advertised but also for the entertainment itself. When hard times bring cuts in advertising budgets, sponsors must think twice before they risk the popular vexation which might arise from taking from the public a favorite free show or a popular entertainer. Therefore, sponsors are slow to pull out of radio, quick to return...
Similarly cautious optimism was the most that other indicators offered last week. The war scare depressed stock prices but not severely, and volume of selling was light. Demand deposits in Federal Reserve Member banks were near the peak set at the end of 1936 but the turnover (ratio of checks drawn to deposits) was at low ebb, 11% under the norm for 1935~37. Power output rose to a new 1938 high, General Motors recalled 24,000 men to its Flint plants, and department-store sales all over the nation were off only 3% from the same week a year...