Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...housewives joined the protest over the petroleum famine. Before Mexico took the oil industry away from its foreign owners in 1938, most Mexicans cooked on charcoal braziers. Then, with sudden oil wealth, the Avila Camacho Government ordered landlords to furnish kerosene stoves. A domestic revolution ensued. Last week Josefina Novarra, 23, stood in a Mexico City kerosene queue and spoke her mind. "Look how we have to stand in line to get a little kerosene for our stoves," she grumbled. "And they want certain kinds of cans or they won't sell you any. Damn the whole Pemex outfit...
...York Herald-Tribune last week. the acceptance of the social arrangement under a code of "white supremacy," then, went beyond the cranky rantings of Paul Bumpus, circuit Attorney General, whose pleas for hangings were on the grounds that "the trials at Nuernberg were not going to furnish enough victims," or Lynn Bomar, Tennessee's Commissioner of Safety, who raised violent objection to the addressing of Negro defendants and witnesses by "Mr.," "Mrs." or "Miss" It was not, fundamentally, a case of twenty-five Americans vs. the State, but another chapter of an old Southern story: justice vs. a social system...
...were now down to the end of supplies. Hospitals, unable to give their patients proper diets (two Boston hospitals began to serve horse meat), pleaded with Washington and local OPA offices for help. They got a promise of it - a new OPA formula by which suppliers are required to furnish the same percentages of meat to hospitals and other institutions as they did in the same period of 1944. If the suppliers failed to meet the quotas, they would be subject to OPA penalties. But what if the suppliers of the suppliers failed to supply them...
Each undergraduate is entitled to one season seat in the area allotted his house, season seat in the area allotted his house, but additional pairings for individual games may be obtained the week before the contest by turning in the ticket to the H.A.A. which will furnish the requested number of seats in another section. The H.A.A. emphasizes the point that the exchange seats will not be quite as favorable as those in the regular undergraduate sections. Ticket sales begin today in the H.A.A. office beneath the Freshman Union...
Craig Rice based her 1944 book on the unreticent personalities of her own three children. A strong flavor of reality is retained in the movie. Three knowing youngsters, raised on lurid crime novels, would doubtless jump at a chance to furnish the real police with clues, red herrings, anonymous letters, innocent suspects, alibis and the rest of fictional murder's razzle-dazzle...