Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfortunate statement," bitterly remarked New York City's Department of Hospitals. New York hospitals and clinics have been overcrowded with 25% more patients than normal during full employment times. The staffs hear of people who "cannot afford to be sick," who defer treatment, operations. For the municipal hospitals alone the budget requires $25,326,000, an enforced increase over last year of $5,800,000. Surgeon-General Cummings' report, complained the New Yorkers, "excludes epidemics and, covering only 13 unmentioned States, deals only in mortalities...
Then there are multitudes of the "white-collared" class, who cannot afford private nurses and who cannot endure the nursing of free medical services. Elnora E. Thompson, president of the Nurses' Association, last week called white-collar folk "the greatest unnursed group of a community." To meet the needs of such "unnursed," the nurses are experimenting with service by the hour. Although the nurse thus is relegated to the catch-as-catch-can employment of an apartment housemaid, she may earn a maximum of $2 or $3 an hour...
...disgruntled announcement from Producer Hughes: "In spite of the fact that we have invested more than $100,000 in the story and preparation of Queer People, its production must be indefinitely suspended because we cannot obtain a satisfactory cast. ... It is not a question of salary as we can afford to pay adequately for players required...
...bald, white-whiskered popular biographer who looks like a country doctor is Gamaliel Bradford (Bare Souls, Wives, As God Made Them). Last week in the New York Times literary supplement he pondered U. S. education, decided it was "chaos," recommended a "clue which . . . may afford a certain amount of help. I mean the clue of biography." Though Biographer Bradford does not offer his own trade as a solution of all teaching problems (he admits it does not afford intellectual discipline), he says it has "the immense advantage of affording a natural link between the otherwise widely scattering and mutually repellent...
...refused. The 130 other tunnel workers walked out in sympathy. The company replied by stopping all work, making 1,100 others idle. Frank Crowe, superintendent of Six Companies, Inc., blamed the oft-blamed I. W. W. Said he: "We are six months ahead of schedule now and we can afford to refuse concessions which would cost $2,000 daily, or $3,000,000 during the seven years we are allowed to finish the work...