Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...carriers for peak seasonal loads. For corporations, he will do a Convair over completely (bar, hifi, etc.), raise its fuel capacity to give it 50% greater range, put it in anyone's hangar for $385,000. Abroad, he is counting heavily on regional lines that cannot yet afford jets, but need better planes than they now have...
...sagged. Milwaukee's second baseman and sparkplug Red Schoendienst, recovering from tuberculosis, will be out of play all season, and the Braves looked unimpressive as they dropped 15 of their first 21 spring training exhibitions. Pittsburgh's second-place Pirates gave up power that they could ill afford to lose when they traded Slugger Frank Thomas to the Cincinnati Reds. In the winter trading, the Giants picked up two established starting pitchers: Jack Sanford, 29, who won 19 games for Philadelphia two years ago, and aging (33) Sam ("Toothpick") Jones, a hard-throwing curve-bailer...
...fact that 80,000 Steelworkers are still unemployed despite the industry's rapid comeback. Employment is up only about 20% since last April, while monthly production has jumped 100%. The union insists that labor is the main factor in the rising productivity, and that the companies can afford to pay more...
...venture capital firm in the sense that it sponsors new inventions. "We get in on the second stage," says Partner Clarence E. ("Dutch") Unterberg, "after the company has demonstrated some earnings. In the first stage the risks are too great." With its low overhead, Unterberg, Towbin can afford to spend time hunting for good small companies, and the partners manage very well on their underwriting profits. On Marquardt Aircraft they made...
...even clerks and secretaries can afford the camera safari, which provides them with a peaceful look at wildlife in the unfettered flesh and fascinating movie footage to amaze the folks back home. Nairobi's Overland Motor Co. offers a 15-day tour of game areas by car for a comparatively modest $700, including round-trip air fare from Europe. Overland, which expected about 50 tourists at most during the first three months of 1959, now expects the total to top 800 before the season is over. The animals in East Africa's national parks, secure in the protection...