Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When he got out of law school, Wallace could not afford to set up a law practice. He collected 1,000 coat hangers, sold them and his old clothes, lived on the meager proceeds until he got a job - driving a dump truck. He was still piloting the truck at 23, when he met a clerk in a dime store named Lurleen Burns, 16. They were married in May 1943 and now have four children...
...storage. She buys $50 Dunhill pipes and smokes them while she plays with her electric trains. The trains come in kits from Germany. She assembles them herself and has them running all over a bedroom. "I never had any toys as a child," she says, "and now I can afford them. I'm going to have the darnedest train layout you ever saw. I've ordered a waterfall from England and a ski lift, and hoboes to ride in the boxcars, and cows and cities. I'm going to have my own crashes right out of Charles...
...that was in 1952, and the costs of finding another one like it today are staggering. The best prospects remaining are Louisiana deep holes that cost $700,000 each to bring in, or offshore wells that can cost up to $10 million each-prices only the majors can afford...
Gillette entered the field with some reluctance. It could afford to ignore the success of Britain's venerable Wilkinson Sword Ltd., which has been unable to meet demand ever since it began selling its Super Sword-Edge stainless blades in the U.S. 18 months ago. But demand for the stainless blades lured Gillette competitors Schick (Krona Plus) and American Safety Razor (Personna and PAL) into the field-and Gillette was forced to go along...
...State College, paints straightforward portraits of comic-book heroes and heroines. He professes a distinct liking for banality. "I'm a product of the affluent society," he says. "I just bought a secondhand color television set." If pop art lasts much longer, he will doubtless be able to afford a brand-new color set, with remote control...