Word: furnishings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whip up U.S. sentiment against Spain, Hearst sent Reporter Richard Harding Davis and Artist Frederick Remington to Cuba to "document" Spanish atrocities. When the artist complained that there were no signs of strife and asked leave to return home, W.R. sent him a supremely cynical cable: PLEASE REMAIN. YOU FURNISH THE PICTURES AND I'LL FURNISH...
...Friendly Five" men's shoes at $5 a pair. Invading the North, he bought a tanning plant in Michigan, started a box-making division and a subsidiary to furnish low-cost cement, chemicals and finishes to the manufacturing plants. By 1941, his integrated company had 43 retail stores of its own, 10,000 other outlets, and sales of $24 million. Last year, with outlets in 18 nations, sales hit a new peak of $84 million, and General netted $4,000,000. Just before buying Johnston & Murphy, Maxey Jarman expanded by buying Massachusetts' W. L. Douglas...
...fail to follow Mr. Acheson's line of argument that it was expedient, at Yalta, to give Russia a legal claim to a finger so as to prevent her from taking a hand. How was it possible for Roosevelt and Churchill to furnish Stalin with a "legal claim" to territories over which neither America nor Britain had any jurisdiction whatsoever...
...island . . . We gave vast amounts of military equipment to that government. . . It is not that they lack rifles or ammunition ... or that they cannot purchase what they need . . . The trouble lies elsewhere, and it is not the function of the U.S. nor will it or can it attempt to furnish a will to resist and a purpose for resistance to those who must provide for themselves...
...adornments for the chapel have already been paid for by its original planners. They have decorated the room with candles, which will furnish the only light used during the devotional services...