Word: afford
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee of Economic Advisers hoped might be reached in four years. Since it takes three-quarters of a ton of finished steel to build one ton of steel capacity, Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson worried that the industry might be using more metal than the arms program can afford. Last week the flow of amortization orders from the Defense Production Administration slowed down to a trickle. Steelmen predicted that Wilson would soon stop them altogether to let the country catch up with the industry...
...both full play. Part of his power stems from the directness of Muccini's approach to art. He had no early contact with art schools and theories, learned his craft by the simple process of painting layers of pictures on both sides of what little canvas he could afford...
...like painting from nature is that you can't beat it. God is the greatest artist. You can't imagine anything nearly as rich." é"Good taste is a great curse to the nation. It spells only one thing, an inferiority complex. People can't afford bad taste because it means they're jerks, that they don't belong. If this keeps up, no one will spit on the floor any more." é"It's a good life, being a painter. You can live like a millionaire; off to the country for the summer...
...last five years, responsible city officials have advocated a large city-owned incinerator to break this monopoly. When disposal facilities are owned by the city, any company can muster enough money to invest in necessary equipment, and can therefore afford to bid. An incinerator would also cut off the $75,000 expense of dragging the refuse out to Spectacle Island. In 1945, $30,000 was appropriated to plan an incinerator, and an engineer engaged to do it. But when the design was submitted, the Public Works Commissioner rejected it on two relatively minor points. Nothing has happened since...
...city gave the contractors another advantage by delaying invitations for bids until mid-December. All contracts must be signed by January 1st or refuse will lie in the streets. No company can afford to buy the necessary equipment before they win a contract, and, under the system of late bidding, no company has time enough to buy the equipment after winning a contract. Therefore, no new company bids. If the Boston Public Works Department officials felt that the old contractors were being unreasonable, it couldn't even threaten to take over the work because there never was time before January...