Word: furnisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...formed in 1912, owns 95% of the electric light and power resources of Montana; it sells current to Mr. Ryan's greater company, the Anaconda Copper Mining Co. (he is chairman) and its subsidiaries, including a 120-mile electrified railroad; and it has a 99-year contract to furnish power to the electrified portion of the St. Paul Railroad. Montana Power is one of the largest and most powerful concerns in the Northwest. Isolated it is worth a good many millions...
Although a new articles of equipment will be available, candidates for the most part will have to furnish their own equipment...
Harvard University and the Pathé Film Co. agreed, last week, to the formation of the University Film Foundation. Pathe will do the financing and shoot the pictures in distant crannies of the globe. Harvard will furnish a site for a laboratory on its campus; its faculty and students will help in putting the films together. Thirty films are expected to be finished by summer. Two-thirds of these will show home life among obscure peoples of Africa, Asia, the South Sea Islands, etc. The rest will show continents emerging from oceans, being eroded by volcanoes, water falls, floods. Explorers...
...Winthrop Allen, chairman of the Vanadium Corporation of America (vanadium & alloy for use in the manufacture of steel tools and cutlery) reported a net income of $1,849,240 (previous year: $1,980,031); revealed that the corporation "has already developed over 100 chemical compounds and stands prepared to furnish these compounds to the trade...
...playbills, of which there were over 350,000 in 1917, furnish an authentic history of the stage from the time of Shakespeare. The earliest playbill is that of a puppet show in Bartholomew Fair about 1682, believed to be the first playbill printed in English. In the first of the Drury Lane playbills the dramatis presonae, the names of the actors, and the author did not appear; these features were printed for the first time on the bills of 1714. It is interesting to note that many of the stars of this period resolved upon several alleged farewell performances before...