Word: furnishes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand in spending their ECA allotment; a cut in U.S. tariff duties on British goods, an easing of U.S. customs red tape, and permission to save dollars by discriminating more freely against certain imports from the U.S. (i.e., buying goods, instead, from America's competitors if they can furnish them more cheaply). Sir Stafford Cripps was still reported stubbornly opposed to devaluation of the pound, but there was growing feeling in Britain that devaluation, while a severe and only incomplete measure, might be a good thing in the long...
...chamber was deathly still as the clerk began the roll call. The first, and critical, vote was on the reservation proposed by Senator Wherry, which would insist that the U.S. had no obligation to furnish arms to its new partners. It was defeated, 74 to 21. Two other reservations were knocked down. Then, by a majority of 82 to 13, the Senate approved the North Atlantic Treaty...
...Sept. 15, 1946, the first of the 229 houses of her (George Washington) Carver Manor went on sale at $11,400 and $11,200 each. Some 500 Negroes swarmed over the lot. Most buyers had steady jobs as schoolteachers, policemen and firemen, were good credit risks, earned enough to furnish their homes comfortably and keep them in good repair. Mrs. Grant signed up 110 buyers the first day, had waiting lines for weeks. She is now building an additional 33 units and a $140,000 shopping center for a new 95-house annex to Carver Manor, besides the bigger...
Lamont Library will keep its doors opens this summer to furnish air-conditioned study facilities and classrooms for the Summer School's expected 2000 students, Director George W. Adams announced yesterday...
What sort of citizens would such men be? The FORTUNE tellers could only guess. They would probably be good technicians, good managers, good neighbors. But would they ever do anything creative or provocative-"furnish any quota of free-swinging s.o.b.s we seem to need for leavening the economy?" Said FORTUNE: "The answers will be a long time in coming...