Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...conference opened, Harry Truman stood up before the delegates, a grave, grey man in a dark blue suit, and read gravely and greyly from his black looseleaf notebook: "[The eyes of the American people] are turned here in the expectation that you will furnish a broad and permanent foundation for industrial peace and progress. "Our country is worried about our industrial relations. It has a right to be. That worry is reflected in the halls of the Congress in the form of all kinds of proposed legislation. You have it in your power to stop that worry. I have supreme...
...thousand dollars were still left in the fund, and lumber and materials for a house (with electric lights and a bathroom) were on order. Powell's Furniture Store of Inman had promised to furnish the front room. The First Baptist Church of Landrum had donated a Bible, the Orange Crush Co. a mule, and other gifts were still coming in-an electric pump, fertilizer, pecan trees, dishes...
...truth is that our system of free enterprise cannot long endure on the 2% of capital (capital with a capital "C") furnished by the silk hat. To furnish full employment under our system of free enterprise there must continue to be invested in our mills and mines and factories the other 98% that has been hitherto so invested by those symbolized by the lunch...
Edema, dysentery, nephritis and pulmonary ailments packed the surviving hospitals. The T.B. rate was estimated at 22% of the population. Hospital patients were required to furnish their own bedding and food. There were no cotton bandages, few disinfectants...
Thus began the end of the unprecedented device by which Franklin Roosevelt, nine months before U.S. entry into the war, began to furnish munitions, food, tools and services to nations who became U.S. allies. By this week the horn of U.S. industry and plenty had poured out about $40 billion worth of Lend-Lease. It was help which in the end-result of victory could not be truly measured by what Franklin Roosevelt had once called "the silly foolish old dollar sign...