Word: furnishings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...addition to this, Government activity provided about $50,000,000 from private sources for the relief of the cattle industry; and, in the early Spring of this year, a $10,000,000 corporation was formed, which, it was estimated, could furnish $100,000,000 for diversification and financial relief in the Northwest. The Intermediate Credit Banks have loaned over $86,000,000 to individuals and coöperative marketing associations, which assisted directly and indirectly over 500,000 farmers...
...first thought should be to maintain unimpaired the activity of agriculture and industry. That tax is theoretically best which interferes least with business. Every student knows that excessively high rates defeat their own purpose. They dry up that source of revenue and leave those paying lower rates to furnish all the taxes. . . . Good business is worth more to the small-income taxpayer than a considerable percentage of tax reduction. Only about 3,500,000 people pay direct income taxes. The remainder pay, but pay indirectly, in the cost of all purchases-from a pair of shoes to a railroad ticket...
...Mall near the Lincoln Memorial, via Columbia Island, to Arlington. Several kinds of sentimental attachments are in the project. It would reunite the North and South. It would connect the Lincoln Monument with the home of General Robert E; Lee on the Virginia shore. It would furnish a direct route from the Capitol to the National Cemetery at Arlington. It would extend the city's Mall across the Potomac to the grave of Major Pierre Charles L'Enfant, the Frenchman who designed the Capital city...
...signal light far over the Tyrrhenian sea, whose treacherous waters were the poet's grave. The site is not precisely the part of the shore where his body was found, but a much finer one, a mile or so north, where the rugged marble mountains of Carrara furnish a lofty, solemn background. The sculptor, Fontana, has already achieved distinction in works of impressive size-notably in the Garibaldi at Sarzana, and the newly erected Quadriga at Rome. Said Fontana: "We, too, claim some share in Shelley's memory. He lived and died among us. Prometheus has, I suppose...
...naval reserve contract and built the oil storage tanks at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, despite the fact that the contract is now under attack and in fact in litigation. The tanks are ready, but just who will fill them has not been decided. Under the contract, Pan-American was to furnish 2,500,000 barrels of oil for this purpose. But because of court procedure, Pan-American need not go ahead with this clause of the contract...