Word: furnisher
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Again an evening-up process has occurred in gasoline prices. California has been in a position to furnish cargo lots at lie a gallon, which can be shipped to the Atlantic seaboard for 2? a gallon. As a result, Standard Oil of New Jersey has cut its tank-wagon price I? and Standard of New York...
...receipts in June. The reason they are of any special interest is because, early last spring, after a great fight, Congress passed a bill which increased the salaries of postal employes (to the tune of about'$68,000,000 a year) and increased revenues in a way to furnish an equal amount of additional revenue (TIME...
...jokes upon them. The good citizen with a "cause" brings propaganda to their desks. Public men lie to the press as an aid to their digestion. Reporters, the emissaries hired by editors to keep them accurately informed, put upon them out of carelessness, laziness and pure imagination. Picture agencies furnish them with false photographs (TIME, Apr. 20, LETTERS). News services lie to them from afar, out of reach of their investigation. And press agents are paid to deceive them...
...list of patronesses is headed by Mrs. Hugh D. Scott. Leo Reisman's 25-piece orchestra will furnish the music for the evening...
...Harvard publications are representative of the others in this quintet, it would be folly to say that their suppression is evidence of any deepseated revolt among college students. Harmless satire bordering on bad taste is not sufficient proof of a revolutionary spirit. Satire and parody do furnish evidence of mental alertness of a critical disapproving sort. If the offended and offending college publications prove anything at all, it is that there is present in many students a vague consciousness of emptiness in American life which the colleges are falling to fill, and of an incompleteness of development which education...