Word: furnishing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Limited to seven meals over a two-week stretch in 1949, the freshmen will be able to obtain passes all next month for a total of 14 inter-House priviliges. For most of the first-year men, these brief excursions into upper class gracious living furnish almost the only experience on which to base applications for admission to the Houses later in the year...
When the N.E.D.L. was planned, the Carnegie Foundation was asked to furnish a construction grant. It refused, commenting, "Libraries never cooperate." Construction went ahead on Harvard funds, for a building with 1,000,000 volume capacity. It is now 90 percent full...
British businessmen would not believe -or did not know-that the bid had been rejected on technical grounds. City Purchasing Agent Paul R. Hendricks explained that the British firm had not met the city's engineering and delivery requirements; it could not furnish blueprints for twelve months instead of the 120 days specified. Furthermore, Seattle was not sure about other details. Ferranti had written its contract in the technical jargon of the British Institution of Electrical Engineers, had merely appended a glossary of I.E.E. terms, leaving Seattle to try to figure out the specifics of the bid for itself...
When the N.E.D.L. was planned, the Carnegie Foundation was asked to furnish a construction grant. It refused, commenting, "Libraries never cooperate." Construction went ahead on Harvard funds, for a building with 1,000,000 volume capacity. It is now 90 percent full...
...private businessmen will be a, crucial factor in achieving the upward growth." To provide encouragement, Truman planned to recommend changes in tax laws which would "stimulate business activity and yield a moderate amount of additional revenue." He was also studying "new devices for encouraging private financial institutions to furnish equity capital to small and medium-sized concerns...