Word: furnishers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Profitless Oil. Unlike Britain, the U. S. has only a few communities cooperatively self-contained, notably Maynard, Mass., where co-ops can furnish nearly all consumer needs. There are two small co-op mail-order houses. Co-operation has been adapted to rural telephones, power plants, personal loans (credit unions), groceries, trucking, insurance, undertaking. But except for farm supplies the most conspicuous success has been with oil & gas. Co-op gas stations have multiplied two-thousand-fold since the first was founded in Cottonwood, Minn...
...acre farm at Hillhouse, Miss., bought at $5 an acre by Reformer Sherwood Eddy, established as a colony last spring. On it, already farming 400 acres of cotton, are 24 "cropper"' families. Free to organize if they choose, they will receive "model contracts" for "furnish" at 5% interest per annum, will draw up their own self-government regulations, child labor laws. First half of the net return on the crop will go toward retiring the capital investment. The other half will be apportioned to the workers on the quality and quantity of their labor. Ardently Founder Eddy sums...
Hearts Divided (Warner) turns out to be a particularly inept little costume piece in which Marion Davies proves unable to furnish first-rate entertainment even when directed by Frank Borzage and surrounded by such players as Dick Powell, Charles Ruggles, Edward Everett Horton, Henry Stephenson, Arthur Treacher, Claude Rains. Miss Davies is Betsy Patterson, a belle of old Baltimore. Mr. Powell is Jerome Bonaparte, sent over to represent Napoleon at ceremonies surrounding the Louisiana Purchase. The picture is notable solely for the Rains characterization. Ham actors long to be Napoleon. Mr. Rains makes Napoleon a ham actor...
Awarded under the rules of the National Sculpture Society, an association whose purpose is to encourage U. S. carvers and chiselers, the Baltimore money will not all be clear gain for Sculptor Fraser. Out of the $100,000 she must furnish materials, studio rent, wages of assistants and workmen, possibly will show only a small profit when the bronze generals are finally cast and unveiled in Baltimore's Wyman Park. Some other U. S. sculptors reported busy last week were...
...this was academic, Dr. Barnes's next move was not. When the congregation of Central North Broad Church announced it would follow Dr. Machen, Central North Broad was promptly locked up. Moderator Barnes declared its pulpit vacant, announced he would furnish a supply pastor on Sunday, ruled that, according to a U. S. Supreme Court decision, the church belonged not to the congregation but to the General Assembly. To those edicts the Machenites bowed. On Sunday 700 of Central North Broad's members worshipped with their pastor in Lu Lu Temple...