Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Blueprints. It is the judgment of most Western analysts that the armed Soviet Union should soon be able to afford both superbombs and more consumer goods. Its economy is growing, says the Harvard Russian Research Center, at the rate of 5% to 6% a year-theoretically enough to double its gross national product once every twelve years. Short of war, Russia's gross output may pass Western Europe's by 1965 or 1970. According to these figures, its output per capita equaled Italy's in 1950; it will catch up to the 1951 output of France...
...their candidate, Mrs. Lena Jeger. Clement Attlee told the voters that Churchill "believes in giving opportunities of profitmaking to private individuals; the general good is only a byproduct." From the London Zoo to the British Museum. Socialist loudspeakers dinned one slogan through the fog: "You Can't Afford the Tories...
...escape the Bear's hug, Finland's new government hopes for an opening of Western markets and a new trade pact with Britain. Tuomioja's Cabinet could do most to help at home by paring down wages and prices, and curtailing social benefits which Finland cannot afford. But not even Tuomioja's conservatives dare offend both the Soviet Union and the Finnish trade unions, which are wedded to the welfare state. The new Premier announced: "We shall continue Finland's policy of friendship with all nations, especially with the Soviet Union...
...young men in Cardiff, Wales, the Cudlipp brothers-Percy, Reginald and Hugh-had a long-standing family bet on which would be the youngest editor of a Fleet Street newspaper. The Cudlipps were sons of a traveling salesman who could not afford to send any of them to college, so they started in journalism early. At twelve, Percy was sending poetry regularly to the South Wales News. Two years later he got a job as a copy boy on the paper, soon after became a reporter. Reg, five years younger, started on Cardiff's Western Mail and South Wales...
...grants, "the most practical service the Student Council renders the College," according to chairman Popell, require no academic qualifications. They are usually given to men whose term incomes are not quite sufficient to afford their term bills...