Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dizzy Heights." With the deadlock thus total, both parties made irate statements. Sir Tej and Mr. Jayakar reported that the Gandhite leaders said to them in substance: "The Viceroy's words afford a further painful insight into government mentality. It is as plain as daylight that from the dizzy heights of Simla [Viceregal Summer Capital in the mountains] India's rulers are unable to understand and appreciate the difficulties of the starving millions living in the plains, whose incessant toil makes government from such a dizzy height at all possible...
...Lear Black, onetime clerk, raised himself through the grades of business and finance to the directorship of banks, shipping companies, insurance firms, was longest identified with Baltimore's Fidelity & Deposit Co. Known as the richest man in Maryland (he was insured for $750,000), he could easily afford to indulge his hobbies, chief among which was traveling by airplane. In his private planes, with two pilots whom he originally borrowed from Royal Dutch Air lines in 1927, he flew approximately 130,000 mi. in all parts of the world...
...francs ($9,775.000) the amount of money annually to be loaned shipbuilders. With particular favor will the builders of fast ships be looked upon, especially if the craft are to be placed in Algerian, Tunisian or Moroccan service. In addition to helping lines which will afford speedier communications with the colonies, the bill is designed to reduce the minimum interest rate from 3% to 2% on government loans now outstanding to shipbuilders, excepting passenger shipbuilders who will continue to pay the old rate of interest...
...Duce is astute enough to realize that Soviet Russia, more than four times as large as the rest of Europe, with a population of 154 millions, is a market no country can afford to ignore. Fascist Italy has granted official recognition of the Soviet. Last week while U. S. businessmen agitated for Soviet recognition (see p. 13) Isador Liubimov, Assistant Commissar of the Soviet Commissariat for Foreign Trade, was formally wined and dined in Rome, after which he and representatives of the Fascist government signed an agreement whereby Russia will buy $10,000,000 worth of Italian manufactured goods before...
Newsmen asked one another what had happened, could only guess at the answer. Perhaps some unlucky subeditor had blundered. Or perhaps the Star, unable to transform so many big snakes into other animals, decided in editorial conference that it could ill afford to drop out its ace comic, the Bungles, for even one Sunday. Or perhaps Publisher Longan suddenly and completely recovered from his snake-phobia...