Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book business. B-o-M sent out more than 7,000,000 books last year, showed a net profit (after taxes) of nearly $1,250,000. The Literary Guild, the Dollar Book Club and a group of other clubs, all owned by Doubleday, do so well that Doubleday can afford to shrug off the charge that most of the books on its own huge publishing list are utterly undistinguished...
Dewey, by his own agreement and choice, will stay in the background. He will be responsible for New York, and New York only. Ike supporters suspected that he timed his trip to the Far East deliberately to keep out of the way. He could afford to let Eisenhower be elected to two terms, serving in a key job himself (say Secretary of State-see below) and be only 58 when the second Eisenhower term...
...Duff cannot afford to stay in the outfield for long. As eastern manager of the Eisenhower-for-President forces, he counts on controlling Pennsylvania's big, 67-man delegation to the Republican convention. By instinct and inclination, Grundyites prefer Taft. With Governor Fine running the state government and playing ball with Grundy, Jim Duff is in danger of finding himself a manager with only half a team...
Harry Truman, who can scarcely afford to lose supporters, gave one a kick in the political shins last week. The wounded man: Illinois' Fair Dealing Senator Paul Douglas...
...early days of Reuters, the foreign correspondence of most newspapers consisted of letters sent by ship, so Reuters had no competition in Britain when it set up its own cable service. By the time Founder Reuter died in 1899, the London Sun proclaimed that "no daily newspaper could afford to dispense with Reuters' service...