Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While a torrent of gold poured in through his magazines, Publisher Bernarr Macfadden could afford to ignore the rivulets which trickled out through his unprofitable Manhattan tabloid Evening Graphic. But Macfadden Publications Inc.. which earned $1,839,000 in 1928, earned only $1,395,000 in 1930.* Few months ago Publisher Macfadden, for the first time, turned his personal attention to the Graphic, which has never made money since he started...
...Canadian editor urged caution. Admitting "the undoubted fact that . . . the quality of the entertainment is very often poor, and the overload of advertising little short of exasperating," Montreal's Daily Star remarked that "Radio is not a necessity of life," questioned whether Canada in the present depression can afford to build an estimated $5,000,000 chain of high-power stations and switch to broadcasting of a higher type...
...public Editor Fishbein submitted: "Good medical care differs greatly from the best medical care. In view of the advances of modern medical science, it is questionable whether or not the best medical care can ever be furnished to all the people at a price they can afford to pay. It would seem rather that we must work toward the period when all of mankind in this country will receive the best medical care that they can be furnished for what they can afford...
...labor, even though done on public works not greatly needed, than that the money should be given as charity. And though the project might not increase the total wealth of the community it would make for more equitable distribution, taking in no considerable measure from those who can afford to pay in order to provide the bare essentials for others...
...George Tilton; Kamsler & Fuller, producers). A great many people admire the slick urbanity of Osgood Perkins; many more are titillated by the romantic comedy of Henry Hull; others like to watch Dorothy Gish purse her mouth. Foreign Affairs, with all three of these favorites in it, should therefore afford capital fun to playgoers in considerable numbers...