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Word: furnishers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...some-thing big. He found that squads of oily, smooth-tongued salesmen had combed Cleveland with tales of a great shortage of burial ground. Since everyone must die, the salesmen argued, best possible investment would be in the wholesale blocks of new cemetery plots which they were ready to furnish for cash, savings bankbooks or deposits on call at building & loan societies. Catch was that enough speculative cemeteries to bury Cleveland's dead for 200 years to come had already been laid out, but the promoters glibly promised 100% profits in 60 days. Following their trail. Investigator Fritchey discovered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Graveyard Scoop | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

...reply, I beg to state that, if you will furnish this office with a letter of recommendation from the Democratic chairman of your county or Reynolds' manager, I will be more than glad to take your case up with the Works Progress Administration in Watauga County and do everything I can in an effort to help you. This procedure is followed in all instances...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Carolina Pull | 6/1/1936 | See Source »

...preliminary luncheon Mr. Ford, full of ideas about soy beans which he raises and puts into his cars in large quantities, tossed off a few quotations for the Press. "The plastic field is the greatest in the industrial world today," said the aging motor manufacturer. "The farm will furnish the automobile body of the future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chemurgicians | 5/25/1936 | See Source »

...Press conference next morning, fuming Secretary Morgenthau announced that he would furnish a prompt answer to Mr. May's challenge. His answer, in a letter to the Finance Committee's Chair man Pat Harrison, was to admit a "possible ambiguity" in his phraseology...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TAXATION: May Over Morgenthau | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

...Besides the early feeding of water and solid food by mouth, it is also extremely helpful to supply some adjuvant which will furnish bulk, retard bacterial growth and thus help to combat intestinal stasis. This purpose is best served by mineral oil in agar, with or without the addition of phenolphthalein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Postoperative Gas | 5/18/1936 | See Source »

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