Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...about 30,000 votes. If, with a Presidential candidate personally enlisted in the State campaign, it failed to go Republican by that many votes or more, it would deal the candidate's prestige a tremendous blow. As Presidential campaign matters stood last week, Alf Landon could not afford to take that blow...
Harvard has time on its side and time is the father of prestige. Harvard can afford to listen patiently to all the prevailing pro's and con's. It can reject them because it tried them out two centuries or three centuries ago and found them wanting. It can become their champion because it discovered that they were reasonable and that they worked while Cromwell was still wrangling with the Crown for the sovereignty of England...
...southern edge of the Loop where cheaper stores congregate, used to stand the Davis Store. Field's bought it in 1923 for $9,000,000. Unfortunately, shoppers who wanted bargains chose to patronize Field's basement rather than the Davis Store. And shoppers who could afford quality goods would not be caught in the Davis Store on a bet. After ups and downs and changes of management, Davis lost, all told, some $3,500,000. Thus when Field's chairman, James O. McKinsey, last week put his signature to a contract conveying the Davis Store to Morris...
Selling cheap and advertising dear is the standard formula for making big money out of cigarets. The big Three-Camel, Chesterfield, Lucky Strike-wholesale for $6.10 per 1,000, of which $3 is Federal tax. Because they cannot afford to lose their mass markets they must pour many more millions into advertising than less popular brands. And because each of them sells upwards of 30 billion cigarets a year, they can afford...
...Today, the Administration is spending money for almost every conceivable thing. It is spending even for the necessary things in ways we cannot afford-in reckless ways which are beyond our means-which would never appeal to any one who has had to work for his money-to any one who has had to face the problem of making both ends meet-to any one who has had to see to it that his bills get paid...