Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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President Roosevelt had the opportunity to take immediate advantage of his opposition's adversity and demand whatever he wished. Without promising to release any pegging funds, he had so far contented himself with a sermon on the need of crop control...
...Haut Katanga started mining this material, shipping it to the mother country for refining. The U. S. with its low-grade carnotite could not compete and soon dropped out of the world picture. The Belgian company enjoyed what amounted to a monopoly, producing just enough to fill the demand at its arbitrarily maintained price of $70,000 per gram. Since the medicinal uses of the element were rapidly expanding, grumblings were heard from other nations that the Belgian monopoly was cruelly greedy, especially since the cost of processing the African ore, exclusive of actual digging costs and overhead, was estimated...
...employ musicians. It seemed to the radio people that they ought to be permitted to broadcast wherever and to whomever they pleased, that it was the musicians' job to get small stations to hire more men. Joseph Weber, knowing full well that they were attacking his most crucial demand, stood up bravely, sent many a radio representative home to sleepless nights. Because musicians are as tightly organized as any labor group in the country,* Weber's threat of a walk-out all over the U. S. was no idle boast. Radio officials asked for, and got, two additional...
When seconded by 16 units, the referendum demand went before President Broun and the International Executive Board, who will schedule a national vote of 11,000 Guildsmen as soon as the motions are found in proper order. Thus, after a week of squawks and counter-squawks, the four-year-old Guild found itself ready to take inventory of what it has done so far, what its future course will...
...whom the charade is the "prince of puzzles" will find this collection better than most since the nimble wit of Winthrop Mackworth Praed set the record. Closer to the riddle verse of folklore than to crossword puzzles, "Pa" Rolfe's charades ought to meet the hot-weather demand of many a plain reader for something humorous that does not cost much and may take the rest of the summer to finish...