Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...which has among its sponsors Communist Ben Gold, leader of the C.I.O. fur workers, and New York's Communist Councilman Benjamin J. Davis Jr., announced a march on Washington. It was joined by the National Non-Partisan Delegation to Washington, an outfit which had planned a demonstration to demand anti-lynching legislation...
...unwilling to continue piling up marks which it could not exchange for other currencies or spend in Germany. The Paris Trib could sell 50,000 more copies a day to Germans and Austrians "who are hungry for news of the U.S." But to meet this demand, it would have to be able to trade $462,000 a year worth of blocked marks for dollars...
Hard Coal. Producers of more than 50% of the nation's hard coal raised prices from 20? to 30? a ton. The mine operators said the increases would meet an expected demand for higher wages by John L. Lewis (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Dealers said they would have to pass the increases along to consumers...
...cash was there for spending. Though consumers saved less in 1947 than in 1946 and more of them went into debt, they still had enough cash in their pockets to keep demand at its peak. Up to 4,100,000 planned to buy cars, as many as at the beginning of 1947. "There is no change," the survey noted, "in the prospective demand for other selected durable goods...
...outlook," the survey concluded rosily, "is that consumer expenditure . . . will continue in expanding volume . . . It is possible that immediate consumer demand for certain types of durable goods has increased further since the survey, which was taken before the proposed increase in military expenditures...