Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...served the West as an effective clearinghouse of news flowing in and out of the Communist orbit. When the anti-Soviet revolutions struck in Poland and Hungary, RFE was operating 29 high-powered transmitters out of West Germany and Portugal on a 20-hour-a-day basis to furnish the enslaved peoples with news reports, which the Communists tried to suppress by jamming. Last week RFE was attacked by West German papers and Bonn politicos, and caused some worried U.S. citizens (including NBC Commentator Chet Huntley) to ask a question. Had the RFE broadcasts actually helped spark Russia...
...free food for 867,337 people in 58 of its 67 counties. Sixty of Mississippi's 82 counties draw Government food; $325,000 worth was distributed to 102,000 people in September, and the state expects twice as many people to line up by January, popularly known as "furnish" (handout) time. From July to September this year, 224,566 Michigan residents got 4,371,000 Ibs. of free groceries worth $1,220,000. In Arkansas, some 17% of the state's population gets the handouts...
Three of the Princeton eating clubs: Charter, Key and Seal, and Quadrangle, will be open to Harvard students on Saturday night. The bands of Ben Cutler, "Wild Bill" Davidson, and Ben Napier will furnish the music...
...President has always placed a great deal of faith in the United Nations believing that body is the logical and necessary instrument to bring about world peace. Now the United States is calling for action from the United Nations to furnish an answer to the Middle-Eastern crisis. This answer involves the decision on the nature of the conflict in Egypt. When the United Nations will have reached that decision, she should be able to enforce it through law, and through a police force to reinforce the law, if necessary...
...either end of the line, the $363 million in lines in 1957 will deliver more thermal energy than all the Northwest's hydroelectric dams, and at less cost than gas in New York. Ultimately, says Fish, the line may carry 2 billion cu. ft. daily, enough "to furnish the western half of the U.S.-and send some east to Chicago as well...