Word: affording
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...selling them at cut rates for gold on the world market, thus adding to Germany's hard cash reserves, leaving Rumania holding German promises to pay. This game the Nazis have been playing all over southeastern Europe and in Latin America for several years. Said Viitorul: "We cannot afford to tie ourselves solely to Germany, wherefore we welcome Britain's efforts to gain ground...
This week, tireless Butler Moody, well on his way to becoming a domestic tycoon, also announced in Staff that he would supervise a commercially-sponsored series of films in the interests of better living for the masses. The motto: "If you cannot afford to employ help in your own home, at least know how to do things right...
...cooperators are farmers in sparsely settled districts which the nearest private power company has put in "cold storage" until they become populous enough to be served with profit. To get an REA loan, farmers usually first organize a cooperative, convince REA field inspectors that they can afford to buy enough electricity to pay for the lines. Not grants in any sense, REA loans must under present policies be liquidated within 20 years. Interest runs at the rate the Government pays on its own long-term obligations, currently 2.77%. Both REA and Electric Home and Farm Authority finance the purchase...
...licensee shall permit any person who is a legally qualified candidate for any public office to use a broadcasting station, he shall afford equal opportunities to all other such candidates for that office in the use of such broadcasting station, and the Commission shall make rules and regulations to carry this provision into effect: PROVIDED, that such licensee shall have no power of censorship over the material broadcast under the provisions of this section. No obligation is hereby imposed upon any licensee to allow the use of its station by any such candidate...
...support himself, wife and baby daughter, Elisha washed dishes for $12 a week, read copy on a newspaper, for years could not afford a new suit. His only money was tied up in a $1,200 savings account his great-uncle had started in 1899. One day Elisha's wife begged her father-in-law for this puny sum. Legend has it that when he refused, she produced a horsewhip, thrashed him soundly in the lobby of his swank Manhattan office building. In 1928 she died, and Elisha sent his daughter, Audrey Bridget, to live with his parents while...