Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prices. "Steel men generally must realize that they can ill afford to sell their products even at current prices after they have studied the second quarter earnings." Thus did President Grace, after last week's Bethlehem meeting, put his finger on the industry's sore spot: prices. He said "even at current prices"' because since President Farrell of U. S. Steel told his colleagues two months ago that it was "immoral" to cut steel prices as they were doing, there has been a perceptible rising and firming of prices. Bars, shapes and plates, for example, were last...
...last week did Congoleum-Nairn Inc. comment upon its 25? dividend, the first payment since 1925. Although Congoleum earned $607,000 against $705,000, its management has paid great attention to its internal condition and now it has current assets 33 times greater than current liabilities, can well afford to be generous. Courageous, the management also bought 251,026 shares of the company's own stock for retirement during the Depression...
What disturbed President Hoover most was a new note of attack sounded by the erstwhile friendly Kansas City Star. Editorialized the Star: "If the U. S. can relieve Germany of $250,000,000 in debts, the Government can afford to pay $60,000,000 to hold back its wheat. If a foreign nation is entitled to a moratorium the American farmer should have...
...family. But when the Old Gentleman died his son Raymond, fitted for nothing but the rôle of heir apparent, thought he ought to manage the family brewery business. He lost money steadily; Prohibition nearly ruined him; for the first time in history the Brittons could not afford to winter in Manhattan. "Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Britton and daughter Ellen, will spend this winter in their house on Riggs Island." Schoolma'am Ada Whitehouse had set her unmodish cap at young Warren Chubb but Chubb was trying to hitch his wagon to Rae Britton. So, although Ellen Britton deserved...
...where living is high, artists' materials expensive, even an unknown artist must charge a very high price for every original work of art if he is to live. In France under the droit de suite, an artist can afford to sell a painting for $10, or even give it away...