Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that four phases of his broad Housing program were now functioning effectively: Home Owners' Loan Corp., to save small mortgaged properties for their owners; Slum Clearance, which has been taken up by almost all large U. S. cities; USHA, which finances new tenements for people who can afford not more than $5 per room per month; Federal Housing Administration, which finances home owners who can afford $10 per room per month...
Next, declared the President, must come Phase No. 5-housing for lower-middle families who can afford rooms between USHA's $5 maximum and FHA's $10 minimum. The President hoped that money to finance Housing in this field could be found among thousands of people with $1,000 or so to invest, small private capital brought into an enormous pool by a sure promise of 3% or 3½% interest...
...propriety of recognition seems to me to weigh heavily, although uncertainly, on certain minds. ... In the first place the Council of the League of Nations by a large majority expressed the unqualified view that it was for each nation to decide for itself whether it should or should not afford this form of recognition...
Abandoned six years ago because inefficient management let the privilege become abused, the plan was replaced by a twenty-five cents admission charge until it was found that all too few settlement children could afford this amount. Men who attend the Virginia game will have the satisfaction of knowing that they are watching more than just a football game, that, win or lose, the team will be gaining friends for Harvard...
...various lights by the utility men. One said: "They wanted ballyhoo and we gave it to them." Chairman Floyd Carlisle of Consolidated Edison Co. would only say: "We are delighted to make the studies with the Government.'' Mr. Groesbeck declared: "The results of the meeting this morning afford an excellent demonstration of what can be accomplished when government and industry sit across the table in cooperation...