Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going to get out so quickly it'll make your head swim. The thing you have to remember is that an awful lot of people are depending on me-on my political integrity-for their political futures, their jobs-everything. I couldn't possibly afford to get mixed up with mobsters or hoods, and believe me. I don't intend to-ever...
...chewed its fingernails in the back seat, automen in the driver's seat sped on to more production records, predicted that the total would reach 7.5 million cars this year, up a full 36% from 1954. With high wages and record employment, producers figure that U.S. workers can afford to go into debt. Only 9% of the nation's $266 billion disposable income goes into time payments, said a G.M. spokesman, but "14% or 15% with good credit would cause no damage...
...Reformed Jewish congregation in Oceanside, L.I., had managed to hire a professional cantor for Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year (in 1955 it falls on Sept. 16-18), even if they had to be content with their temple choir on other holy days. This year, because they could not afford both a cantor and a badly needed new organ.* they decided to buy the organ. But during choir practice recently, temple trustees were struck by a soloist who had not only a rich mezzo-soprano, but a sound knowledge of Hebrew language and ritual. Last week they decided that...
...from Nicetown, life has become a lot nicer than it used to be in the old "bus-league" days. With his $45,000-a-year Dodger salary, plus $10,000 or so more from his Harlem liquor store and some extra folding money from cigarette endorsements, Campy can afford steak every day instead of bologna...
Field can afford to grow. The money-losing paper that he took over in 1950 is now solidly in the black. Unlike his father, who seldom counted the financial cost in backing a project, young Marshall Field Jr. takes after his cost-conscious, merchant-prince grandfather. Though daily circulation slipped (now 556,885), he boosted ads and cut costs by putting every department on a dollar-watching financial footing. Field himself works hard, and he expects every other Sun-Timesman to follow suit. Says one of his top executives: "He's a tough little guy to work...