Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Texaco and Socony were ready to spend the big money that the Barco needs. A pipeline over the mountains to the sea (more than 200 miles) may cost $12,000,000. Little Carib Syndicate found itself sitting in on a game it could not afford to play, for unless it shared development expenses in proportion to its one-fifth interest, that interest would be gradually shaved down to an insignificant figure. At the Barco table on one side was Texaco's Chairman Torkild Rieber with $473,000,-000 in assets beside him, on the other Socony's President...
...Long Island town is made up almost exclusively of people who can afford not only to buy neat Georgian houses set in landscaped parks but also to commute between them and the metropolis. We say "almost exclusively" because of one section which is called "the Valley" and deserves the name for social as well as geographical considerations. Here live the negro families, as well as the nouveaux arrives: Italians, Poles, Greeks: forming an untouchable world apart but a convenient object for the charitable inclinations of the towns-women...
Nicaraguans enjoyed more another act by President Brenes Jarquin last week. He broadcasted the first Presidential radioration in Nicaragua's history. Because most of the natives are so poor they cannot afford radio sets, broadcasting has never been a Nicaraguan feature. Enthusiasm greeted the President's promise "to reduce the cost of radios to a minimum that all might enjoy their benefits...
...perhaps, will regret his almost too scrupulous adherence to detail. Generalizations on the significance of the mass of facts he presents are largely left to the reader. Readers accustomed to more indulgence will be disappointed. But the facts are a mine of interest which no student can wish or afford to overlook...
...dictator, whether Fascist or Communist, can challenge the solid basis of his backing. None can afford so securely as Roosevelt to take the course, he believes to be right without regard for any need of a spellbound popularity...