Quotes About Supply

On this point you say: `But did the necessity exist in this case? The conscription act can not aid the Government in increasing its supply of arms or provisions, but can only enable it to call a larger number of men into the field. The difficulty has never been to get men. The States have already furnished the Government more than it can arm,' etc.

The machinery thus secured was divided between the arsenals at Richmond, Virginia, and Fayetteville, North Carolina, and, when repaired and put in working condition, supplied to some extent the want which existed in the South of means for the alteration and repair of old or injured arms, and finally contributed to increase the very scanty supply of arms with which our country was furnished when the war

To furnish one hundred and fifty thousand men, on both sides of the Mississippi, in May, 1861, there were no infantry accoutrements, no cavalry arms or equipments, no artillery and, above all, no ammunition; nothing save arms, and these almost wholly the old pattern smooth-bore muskets, altered to percussion from flint locks.

Lack of any kind is always traceable to the fact that we have been seeking our supply from some secondary source, instead of from God himself, the author and giver of life.

Supply creates its own demand," the classical economist Jean-Baptiste Say

This shortfall can be traced to the law of supply and demand, and to a mix of government inaction when action was needed, and intervention when it would have been better to leave well enough alone.

Markets have built in inefficiencies, serious inefficiencies which are well known.

The United States has taken pride in maintaining the 'safest food supply in the world.' And we can still have it, as long as we remember that America's bottom line is measured in the health and wellbeing of all of its people.

Levi's can produce many more Western jeans than we can and make them at a better price.

The eventual place the American army should take on the western front was to a large extent influenced by the vital question of communication and supply.

I prefer leaving things to the market as much as possible.

One term that's used in this industry a lot is this notion of 'feeding the beast.' You've got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They're the basis of your business.

Capitalism can't exist without demand.

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit.

We're not in the business of shaping consumer demand. We respond to it.

There is always more demand for great content then there will be great content to satisfy it.

Resources are being destroyed, and if you don't have resources, you can't do business.

The Patriot missile is a point defence missile. Point defence means that you put the missile at a location to defend a very specific target such as an airfield, a supply dump or a headquarters.

I believe if we simplify the process of tariff-fixing with lesser tariff slabs and rationalise the process, it will reduce corruption, and simultaneously, it will enable supply of adequate and cheap power to the poor as well as to farmers.

As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.

terrestrial innovation was the Red Ball Express, a cargo haulage service begun in late August. Soon seven thousand trucks carried four thousand tons or more each day

Red Ball moved over 400,000 tons in three months, and eventually was supplemented by other routes with names like White Ball, Red Lion, and Green Diamond. But as one major general in Paris lamented, "It was the greatest killer of trucks that I could imagine.

The battle," Rommel famously observed, "is fought and decided by the quartermasters before the shooting begins.

Colonel Carrington was able to construct three forts in the Powder River country: Fort C.F. Smith in Montana and Forts Reno and Phil Kearny in Wyoming. But Lakota and Cheyenne warriors raided the forts again and again, seizing supply wagons, attacking the men