Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Production of some critical materials, such as steel, was below demand. Give the President authority to study the situation and, if necessary, lend industry money to build new steel plants; and if the expansion still lagged, grant authority for the Government itself to build plants (see BUSINESS...
...course offered to the general student is English N: public speaking. Student demand for this course has been steadily increasing so that it now exceeds the facilities. The nature of a speech course demands small sections; the Department's allocations for speech limit the course to 75. As many students had to be turned away from the course last fall as were allowed to take it. Even if University officials do not consider speech an important subject, they must at least recognize its basic value to the extent of giving all those who want this instruction the chance...
...speech at Harvard. Budding young lawyers, or businessmen, or chairmen of corporation boards will all have to express their ideas vocally as well as in letters. True enough, most Harvard men learn how to talk reasonably clearly simply by practicing all the time. But there is enough of a demand for more formal training to indicate that the University should consider a re-evaluation of the importance of speech in its curriculum...
Dean Mildred P. Sherman told Radcliffe Student Government officers yesterday that she is willing to accept whatever decision Student Council reaches concerning the administration's demand for membership lists of all Annex undergraduate organizations, including the 'Cliffe AYD chapter and Young Progressive group. Council will thrash out a final recommendation at a special meeting this afternoon...
Steel production of 88.5 million ingot tons, while it was about 4% above 1947, was still below 1944's record production. Although steelmen blamed the shortage on "abnormal demand," the fact was that steel capacity and production had not even kept pace with the normal growth of population. In 1948, capacity per capita was only slightly more than it had been in depression 1932; production per capita -.as below 1941. Those who talked of "abnormal demand of the boom" failed to take into account the fact that much of it would be normal demand from now on, not only...