Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million research center at Wilmington next month. "It took us ten years and $27 million to bring nylon to the production stage," says Greenewalt. "But for every nylon that hits the jackpot, there are 20 other gambles that fail to pay off. If we could not afford to carry the 19 failures, we would probably miss the nylon...
...Pont can afford the gamble, not only because it is big, but because it is efficient. Du Pont has kept its prices low. In the last decade, while consumer prices rose 75%, Du Pont's increased 35.8%. Yet it has achieved such efficiency that last year it earned about 14% ($187 million) on its $1,297,000,000 sales. (In 1951's first quarter, it boosted sales 40% and net 9% over the same 1950 quarter.) With an additional $120 million in G.M. dividends, its 1950 net profit rate reached an astounding 21%. Obviously, G.M. provides a great...
...rules which we did let pass this time were basically those which stated the University's obvious right to protect its tax exempt status and its "good name." A little careful thought will show that the University cannot afford to surrender these rights...
...stated in its order that it is taking the action to protect commercial airlines running regularly scheduled flights to Europe. Most of the students who go with Youth Argosy, the Board claimed, can afford to pay regular prices, and hence Youth Argosy is directly cutting the business of the regular companies...
...behalf of the Committee on the Present Danger in an interview with Edward R. Murrow, Conant said, "We do not believe that the American people wish to set apart one group of young men. The deferring of college students appears to establish a pattern in which boys who can afford to continue their education are given special privilege...