Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sweden's Count Folke Bernadotte; Finland's Minister to the U. S. Hjalmar J. Procope; Rumania's Minister to the U. S. Radu Irimescu. At the opening of Turkey's two buildings Turkish Ambassador Mehmet Munir Ertegun fidgeted: "Turkey has spent more than it can afford on its exhibits...
Mary Johnson, perhaps taking cognizance of recent figures re shortage of men on her West Coast, makes a plea (TIME, April 24) that older men be sent to war and the younger men stay home because "the country cannot afford further sacrifice of potential fathers." Not to avoid putting on the uniform again, but simply to defend the reputations of those of us who are 40 and over, I protest we are still potential. The late Arthur Brisbane argued and the still kicking Dr. Richard T. Ely (80 plus) is demonstrating that older sires tend to produce intellectually superior offspring...
...Corp. expects to start production with 200 cars a day, sell them through the 25,000-odd Crosley agencies, where they can be rolled in at most front doors, displayed on sales floors among radios and refrigerators. Markets which Crosley dealers will go for hardest: the man who cannot afford a new higher-priced car; the family with one standard car which could use a second for shopping, commuting, taking the children to school. But, as Willys has found, the market for cars that can be built to sell new below $600 is strictly limited, is always subject to invasion...
Infectious Idea. In 1928, popular, respected Dr. Shadid was dissatisfied. He was "bitten by some filtrable virus and turned into a reformer." The farmers of southwestern Oklahoma had no hospital they could afford to use. They paid exorbitant prices for medical care, were often cheated by unscrupulous doctors. Casting about for a solution, Dr. Shadid finally realized that the farmers would have to build their own hospital...
...lives with her moon-faced husband and their 16-year-old twin daughters in a neat, sagging one-room shack near Raleigh, N. C. They live on $4 or $5 a week, remember good times when they had $12. They own a 1924 Dodge but can't afford to run it. Years ago, discouraged by debts and annual babies, John started drinking "like a hog in a bucket of slops." But when Sarah drank cotton-root tea to bring on a nearly fatal miscarriage, John was sobered. "God knows, Sarah," he said, "I love the brats...