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This news raised hopes that the Axis would sanction a Red Cross plan to distribute 15,000 tons of wheat monthly. The plan was being promoted by the Swedish Red Cross, and Sweden had agreed to provide the shipping tonnage. Canada and the U.S. were ready to furnish the wheat. It was believed that that amount of wheat would be enough to prevent actual starvation in the Greek cities and islands where conditions are worst...
Except for the midnight supper, Miss Venuta will furnish the only break in the dancing from 10 to 3 o'clock. Georgie Auld and Rudy Wallace, in the "Battle of Music," will supply the continuous music...
...Committee on Relations with Special Wartime Personel, designed to furnish information, hospitality and "other services" to students sent here by the Army, Navy or Governmental research departments, has been named by President James B. Conant...
Against this situation, U.S. and Australian Army morale officers did their best, set up baseball games and other sports in camps and pleaded for open picture houses. The unions headed that off, refused to work on Sundays, refused the offer of the Army to furnish operators and ushers. The Australian press egged on the anti-Sabbatarians. Demanded the Sydney Daily Telegraph: "Are we assembling huge armies . . . to pave the way to heaven for wowsers...
This is Hearst's third war. For his first war, the Spanish-American War of 1898, he sent Richard Harding Davis, a half dozen other star correspondents to Cuba. A year before the Maine disaster, Hearst is supposed to have wired Artist Frederic Remington: "You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish...