Word: need
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Public Servant. Duggan had been in ill health. The family said that he was overworked, had once suffered from ulcers, and still had a weak stomach; he sometimes felt nausea and the need for fresh air. Furthermore, he had not yet fully recovered from a delicate operation for the removal of a spinal disc performed last fall...
Secretary of the Treasury John Snyder disagreed. At a credit conference in Chicago, Snyder told 1,083 representatives of the American Bankers Association that "business apprehension," which "is getting to be a seasonal affair," had, in effect, already put a damper on overbuying, overborrowing, and overexpansion. There was no need for any additional broad controls against inflation...
...thin record that played as much music as a 12-inch ($1.31) disc. But it will reportedly sell for much less. There was one big catch; the record had to be played at 45 revolutions a minute (instead of the standard 78). Thus, to play it, phonograph owners would need an expensive special attachment...
Because there was no need for it in the golden '20s and no point to it in the depressed '30s, Wall Streeters stopped ringing doorbells. They just sat at their desks, did business over the phone. But last week New York Stock Exchange President Emil Schram thought it was time for the Exchange to try to "sell" the market out of its slump. Schram wanted to "interest the public to buy securities regularly as a means of producing income, much as they have learned to purchase life insurance as a means of protection...
...novel is generated by a youthful vigor and freshness ; it stands out from the tired works of his older contemporaries. The publisher is pleased, and promptly asks Mr. Shelleyblake if he is at work on Opus 2. Mr. Shelleyblake is too shy, or too ambitious, or too much in need of money to admit that having just blown his top in Opus i he hasn't got enough steam up to do it again. What's more, he has recently fallen in love and married ("Sex," says Connolly, "is a substitute for artistic creation"), and the charm...