Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...said a sour thanks. The contract bore the signatures of his Ambassador to the U. S. Giacomo De Martino, and Deputy Amedeo Perna, Italian dentist-politician, and the level script of George Eastman, Kodak & film tycoon. It sweetly gave $1,000,000 to the Italian Government to build and equip a dental clinic in Rome. At the same time it bitterly implied the rottenness and crookedness of Italian children's teeth. And it hobbled the champing Mussolini to certain stout stipulations...
...such a newspaper he wishes-if he is seeking the one most complete, the one most valuable sources of news information on what the entire-world is doing, saying, thinking every twenty-four hours-if he is concerned with influences that equip him to "fly alone"-he will find supremely what he wants...
George Eastman (Kodaks, philanthropy), signed a contract with the Italian Government agreeing to present $1,000,000 to build and equip a dental dispensary in Rome...
This loan was obtained to equip Florida fruit shipping warehouses with apparatus for destroying the Mediterranean fruit fly on outgoing produce. By this method fruit is first heated above 100°, then suddenly cooled to just above freezing where it is held long enough to insure the demise of Halterophera Capitata larvae...
Came last week an elderly Berlin shoemaker commissioned to construct a new pair of presidential shoes. Gazing professionally at the gnarled von Hindenburg feet, the old tradesman decided to equip the new von Hindenburg shoes with solid arch-supporters. President von Hindenburg tried on the new shoes, walked across the room, walked around the garden. His knee pains ceased at once. In a few days his swellings had disappeared. Later an official communique was issued that President von Hindenburg's convalescence was at an end. How the merciful cobbler was rewarded, officialdom neglected...