Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Colonel Bradley first leased, then bought the 400-acre Idle Hour Farm in the heart of the Kentucky blue-grass country near Lexington, later acquiring another 600 acres. The Beach Club pays for this establishment. "My stables keep me poor," says Colonel Bradley. "I can't afford to run them. They cost me $30,000 a month year in and year out, and only in two years have my horses' earnings run as high...
...court, paid Krupp in Vickers stock. When the bewildered reader asks, "How can such things be?" Attorneys Engelbrecht, Hanighen & Seldes point out that these sowers of dragons' teeth are mighty members of their countries' councils, control big newspapers and bigger banks; that their governments, which cannot afford to run state-owned arms industries, cannot afford to let their armorers go idle or elsewhere...
...months the Federal Government had been unable to make up its mind what to do about imported rye. The Polish Government had successfully stimulated foreign trade by paying a bounty of 30? a bu. to the exporters of rye. Polish grain traders could thus afford to sell it in the U.S. at the U.S. price or less, even after paying the 15? per bu. tariff rate. Domestic rye producers protested that this would be dumping, urged Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau to use his powers under the Tariff Act of 1930 to raise the duty on rye by an amount...
...stage, spherical Mildred Bailey spoils the illusion created by her on the radio. And Roscoe Ates stutters his way through twenty minutes of aged jokes. Except for five expert Japanese acrobats, you can afford to skip the stage show and to arrive in time only for the murders...
...Daily" doubts the statements that students, once they leave the lower division, will forsake books for society. The students realize that they can't afford to. From now on, the basis of grades will be merit, according to the administration, and not the fact that a flunk will mean disqualification. Those days are passed...