Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mayors' soviet kept things more orderly thereafter but peace was threatened again when a report got about that the French Government was to decorate Mayor Baker, as chief of the party, with a knighthood in the Legion of Honor. Red ribbons for all or for none was the demand of the other mayors. At an American club luncheon in their honor the mayors greeted General John Joseph Pershing with this cheer: "Omaho! Omaha! Omaha! Ha! Ha! Ha! PERSHING!" The club's president, Theodore Rousseau, extolled the French, warned the visitors that they could find "naughtiness" in Paris...
...Another 15%, had gone into second-hand automobiles. What was described as a "small percentage" had been squandered on fun. President Hoover could not see where the loans had stimulated business as Bonus advocates in Congress predicted they would. Payment of old debts, he reasoned, does not create a demand for new goods. Secondhand car sales do not accelerate new motor production...
...hope," Professor Glueck stated, "that when it becomes known that Harvard is preparing a body of specially trained men for correctional work, community leaders will begin to demand that such men be preferred when appointments are made. It is not systems, or scientifically built prisons that we need; the crying need is for scientifically trained administrators. Criminals cannot be handled as a group, they are individuals, and must be treated by trained technicians...
...price of copper was artificially shot up to 24? a pound. Since then the coppermen have paid stiff penalties for their violation of economic law. Fortnight ago copper sold at 9?, a price not seen since the depression year of 1894. Last week the demand for copper languished further, the price fell to 8¾, a level never before recorded...
...price, and even 1929's lesson was not heeded. Late last year the leading producers decided to curtail production by 20%. They boosted the price from 9½ to 12½ within one week (TIME, Nov. 24). But although production has remained curtailed as agreed, demand has also ebbed. The biggest copper buyers - utilities and the building industry - have been in no hurry to buy. While the daily rate of production in April of North and South American producers was 3,374 tons against 4,151 a year ago and 5,376 in April 1929, stocks of copper...