Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Borah - I expect France to determine for herself how far she can afford to disarm, and I shall not find fault with her judgment. My opinion is that there is not going to be any disarmament by Europe until things are changed considerably...
Railroad executives, aware that Southern and Western roads would need most of the help the pool might afford, were inclined to feel that asking one company's stockholders to pay another company's bond interest was unfair, if not downright illegal.* They went to Atlantic City to discuss the matter further at the Association of Railway Executives meeting...
...life some of you lead is not theory to me, it is reality. I have known what it is to have only one meal a day, which I could afford to pay only tuppence ha'penny...
...designers say the car has made 90 m.p.h., will make more. It resembles the fuselage of an airplane, with no protruding wind-resisting parts. The body is aluminum alloy. The centre of gravity is low for safety. Tests showed the streamline construction would afford a power reduction of 17% at 20 m.p.h., 42½% at 90 m.p.h. It was designed by President Thomas Conway Jr. of Philadelphia & Western; Felix Pawlowski, Guggenheim professor of aeronautics at the University of Michigan; and Brill Co. experts. President Conway, meeting competition by Pennsylvania R. R. and Reading Co., expects to beat their time...
...George Morris and Arthur C. (respectively chairman of the board and president of the Campbell company) and his lawyers insist that his only permanent residence from 1910 was at Pomona Farms, Burlington County, N. J., not far from the great soup factory at Camden; that he bought Woodcrest to afford his five children social & educational advantages. Executors of the estate had already begun to pay $12,000,000 tax to the State of New Jersey on an appraisal there of $114,850,733. Federal taxes of $9,500,000 were paid...