Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the Joe Louis-Tommy Farr fight at Manhattan's Yankee Stadium. Buick Motors bought the exclusive broadcasting rights to the fight for $35,000. Transradio Press Service, Inc. and Radio News Association, Inc. whose business is supplying radio stations with news for broadcasting, announced that they would furnish running accounts of the fight for $10 per radio station. Buick's advertising agency, NBC whose network was being used by Buick, the fight promoters and the fighters went to court asking $100,000 damages and an injunction. Judge Ferdinand Pecora, onetime inquisitor for the U. S. Senate, heard...
...startled London, no effort was made to get the Queen Mother to furnish such confirmation, but neither new King George nor anyone else denied that his elder brother had given history the correct version of who was responsible for expediting his father's funeral, and shame was upon the Garter King of Arms. That night Sir Gerald Wollaston had been slated to attend a dinner at which his place was just across the table from the Duke of Kent. Since Kent is just about Windsor's most loyal friend in the Royal Family, a scene loomed as unavoidable...
Only pessimistic note of the day was sounded by Jaako Mikkoia whose track team lost many excellent performers through graduation. Despite this loss, the present squad under the leadership of Bill Schmidt has the potentialities to furnish many upsets...
...Cuban American were allowed to handle the conversion, they promised to set up a Cuban national currency of 100,000,000 silver pesos. These Promoter Greñas and his bankers said they were ready to furnish at the rate of 5,000,000 a month. Cuba would have 2,500,000 each month as a seigniorage, would pay for the rest by turning over the U. S. and foreign currency captured through Cuba's sizable export balance. With its own currency Cuba could then set up a national bank to furnish Cubans with foreign credit in exchange...
...annual predictions is unvarying from year to year: they are always wrong. Certainties of the forthcoming season last week were exactly two: 1) in 1937 players, managers and umpires will get more money out of the game than they ever have before; 2) in 1937, major-league baseball will furnish the U. S. public with the most extraordinary character it has produced since...