Word: furnish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there the problem only began. Who would furnish a police system, public utilities, schools and health departments? What kind of taxes, if any, would UNO have to pay on the land? What would happen if a UNO delegate wanted to get divorced, or take out a hunting license...
Another question had to be answered: where would UNO meet in the interim? The selection committee had blithely settled on New York as temporary headquarters, but there was no certainty that New York could accommodate UNO. Atlantic City and San Francisco were eager and able to furnish the space. So was Boston. But there UNO ran into another problem-Russia's Delegate Georgii F. Saksin had blackballed Massachusetts as no fit place for UNO after Superior Court Judge John Swift's recent blast: "Godless Russia has torn the Atlantic Charter to tatters and enslaved millions of our fellow...
...race to furnish a successor to the Douglas DC-3, workhorse of the airlines. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. last week got off to a flying start. It pocketed an order from American Airlines for 100 of its new Model 2405, largest number of planes a single airline has ever ordered at one time. Price...
Production alone could furnish the answers. If industry did the job in peace which it had done in war, then the answers would sound pleasant to businessmen. They would have their profits. And labor might well have a larger slice of the national pie. There was no reason why industry could not do the job as long as it realized the size of the job to be done...
...their own safety. . . . If, however, we give the "secret" to an international control commission, we i) show the Russians (against whom, after all, this secrecy is being directed) that we are ready to trust them, i) give a strong impetus for success of the United Nations Organization, 3) furnish a strong moral persuader to other nations to follow our example in cosmopolitan behavior, and 4) lose nothing which we won't lose shortly in any event, if we haven't already done...