Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said President Roosevelt, he had asked them for ideas. What he wanted to know was how to make more jobs in industry. The problem, he declared, was to speed up certain industries for whose products there was large demand by people who could not afford to buy them. Railroad equipment and housing were good examples...
...interspersed with concrete "parking spaces" behind earth embankments. Down these roads could roll at a few hours notice heavy tractor field-pieces, to unlimber at the parking spaces and command the Straits. With all this in his favor, Kamâl Atatürk last fortnight felt he could afford to wangle a remilitarized Dardanelles the legal...
...Clearly the purchase of stocks did not afford a good hedge against price inflation in this country at that time, for the primary purpose in buying stocks in such a period is to seek protection against the advances in the cost of living," the statistical seer concluded gloomily. "One of the clearest of the lessons to be derived from the European experiences with inflation is that there are no good hedges against...
...Sonora triumvirate" of Obregón, de la Huerta & Calles which overthrew and assassinated President Carranza. Calles, a superb executive during his four years (1924-28) as President, built up a potent political machine. After Obregón's assassination in 1928 he could afford to put in a Presidential puppet, Emilio Fortes Gil, and invent the National Revolutionary Party, a tight Fascist organization with a highly Socialistic program of paper promises for the people. Calles and his henchmen unionized Mexican labor, attacked the Catholic Church, quietly amassed huge fortunes, trained an oversized army...
...Choosing a Doctor." Dr. Newcomer's advice: Let a stranger sick in a big city apply to the Academy of Medicine or similar institution for the name of an able doctor who probably knows how to treat the illness and will not charge more than the patient can afford. Elsewhere sick strangers "must rely upon hospitals" or upon the county medical society...