Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...past several years the demand for qualified research chemists has far exceeded the supply, Industrial physicists, on the other hand, have found few openings in research, except that recently those prepared in electronics and communication engineering have found increasing opportunity in radio companies and in geophysical research for the oil companies. Industry appears not to have fully awakened to the possibilities of physical research, but the awareness is gaining slowly. Metallurgists are in demand from the steel companies when business is good, and the demand for these men somewhat exceeds the supply of them at present. Biological research...
...attributable to the fact that he worked for a while with a light company. He played with wire from childhood, is a graduate mechanical engineer of Stevens Institute, once earned his living designing mechanical toys. In Paris eleven years ago Sandy Calder found him self in great demand at parties because of his circus of bent-wire figures which could gallop round a ring, jump through hoops, dance. This success made him give up his none too successful painting. Harvard University sponsors were surprised some years ago when they arranged an exhibition of Sandy Calder's work, sent...
Said London's Brandeis, Goldschmidt & Co. Ltd. in their annual Metal Report: "It is generally acknowledged that the rise of copper in recent months was largely brought about by purchases, speculative and otherwise, in anticipation of a greatly increased demand for military purposes...
...belligerents; prohibition of any Americans to travel on the vessels or aircraft of warring nations; and perhaps most important, the provision that all American claims to any materials whatsoever, intended for a belligerent country, must be relinquished before they leave an American port. The neutrality bill fits the pressing demand for a strictly defined policy, permitting the President to stick his finger in the stew only to proclaim a "state of war" and possibly add to the embargo list...
...Foreign Affairs and Education for himself. Premier Hayashi, moreover, had given every vital Cabinet job to a general or admiral, except that President Toyotaro Yuki of the Industrial Bank of Japan received the thankless post of Finance Minister, must somehow find the billions which Japan's fighting services demand...