Word: demands
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...demand for wheat for food in most countries is comparatively inelastic. In order to tap extensively the strata of elastic demand-for food in China, for example, for feed in many countries, and for industrial uses-prices cruelly low to wheat producers are necessary. Temporarily this may be inevitable...
...Growing with the years, this dissatisfaction with the last War has crystallized into a demand to take the profits out of the next. The American Legion has agitated for what it calls the "Universal Draft." Oftener and oftener is heard the suggestion that Capital and Labor, as well as mere soldiers, be conscripted hereafter. So politically insistent has this movement become that the last Congress created a War Policies Commission. The duties of the W. P. C. were to investigate the details of the last war and prepare legislation "to equalize the burdens and minimize the profits...
...which mobilized and controlled business to supply the Army during the War, Mr. Baruch learned from experience all about war profiteering. To eradicate it he proposed a Federal command of still-pond-no-more-moving. "In modern warfare," he testified, "administrative control must replace the law of supply and demand. To measure inflation of price and profit we must have some norm. The obvious norm is the whole price structure as it existed on some antecedent date near to the declaration of war. . . . That determined, we need a method of freezing the whole price structure at that level. The obvious...
...interested in maintaining the American wage scale as any man alive." Returned to Washington, Secretary Doak took credit for settling six threatened strikes during the week, announced that any wage reductions by Industry would be considered by the Administration a violation of confidence, would justify Labor's demand for pay increases...
...Humana (and Acting Tremolo) of the Guild. Vox Humana Moore pointed with pride to progress in one of the Guild's prime missions: conservation of the wild castiron animal life which is so fast disappearing from U. S. lawns. Congress was now considering the Guild's demand for a preserve, probably to be near Metropolis, Ill., "about three miles from Tillie Ephardt's place." Meanwhile the Guild was to make a great demonstration. Next day 10,000 members were to march from the Battery to Manhattan's Empire State Building, there to form a "living flag...