Word: afford
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatres throughout the U. S. audiences heard this message delivered through Fox Movietone. The birthday gift was advice that Fox patrons buy outright as many shares as they could afford of Fox Theatres Corp.* operating and holding company for his gigantic chain. As special inducement they were told of plans for future expansion and the large earnings that were possible...
...could make their influence mighty. If the raise in the wholesale price presages a return to the strict 15? retail price (now two for 25? in most places, 23? in large chain systems), the second menace to the tobacco industry will have been removed. Although chain stores can afford to sell cigarets at no profit, or even a loss, the war has been expensive to smaller merchants. With cigarets costing them $6 per 1,000 the package price has been (allowing for discount) 10.58?. Selling at two for 25?, the package profit has been only 1.92?, while...
...electricity to a large population just south of San Francisco Bay. Because by such means they could cut down gas waste and yet maintain oil production, large California oil companies supported the conservation law. Small companies, on the other hand, raised a chorus of howling protest. They could not afford to build casing-head or "recycling" plants; the small amount of gas they wasted would not warrant the expense of pipe-lines and could not, therefore, be sold; the big operators would profit at their expense. To win over the little fellows, California's seven largest producers! offered...
...Front, frenzied and weary men lose their individuality, but those who stay at home reveal their naked egos when confronted by crisis. Among them are: A labor leader of solid, statistical mind who forgets his dissatisfaction with the Vaterland when the foe threatens; well-fed Dr. Hoffman who can afford to be Socialist and argue with his practical friend, the belligerent Major; Papa Silberstein who prospers, first by selling uniforms, then widow's weeds; small Gaston. a French boy who tells the author: "The War? That's an affair of our parents...
...first Institute of Comparative Law in the United States will be founded at Harvard this Fall to afford the students of law in the newly enlarged Harvard Law School a concrete basis of ideas from the law of other countries on which to build the legal reforms of the future...