Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...commission on the deal. Fixed charges in underwriting are legal fees, accountant fees and cuts to dealers. To gross $50,000, which investment bankers generally consider minimum per deal, the banker would have to charge an exorbitant commission to float a small issue. Said Mr. Vass: "The banker can afford to charge but 2% or 3% on the sale of a $10,000,000 or $20,000,000 issue, while he must charge, say, 8% or 10% on an issue...
...President Conant's chief concern was not the students who are in U. S. universities, but those who are not. Pointing out that few families with incomes of less than $2,000 a year can afford to send a child to college, and that 80% of U. S. families are in that category, he declared: "It is perfectly evident to me that at the college level and at the advanced professional school stage, all the institutions of the country have been fishing in one small pond...
...Goodrich paid to wage earners in Akron $19,361,927.57. Akron cannot afford to lose any part of this pay roll. But it can only be maintained by keeping Goodrich competitive with companies outside of Akron...
...Hoover Commission, leery of Federal control of the schools, vetoed Federal aid, even though it found some sections of the country too poor to afford a decent minimum of schooling. But Depression dramatized the "glaring inequalities" in U. S. educational opportunities. Hundreds of schools closed, thousands of rural children were entirely without schooling. The U. S. Government was forced to use emergency relief funds to relieve the emergency in education. By this year it had spent $2,426,124,204 to keep schools open, build school buildings, teach adults, help youth in the National Youth Administration and CCC. Meanwhile...
...Hurricane," which opened at the University yesterday for a stay one day longer than the usual run, is a picture that no one can afford to miss. It is a masterpiece of photography and direction. By the authors of "Mutiny on the Bounty," it deals with the South Sea Islands of bygone years when only Nature and the Catholic Church dared to interfere with the French Penal Code. The hero (Jon Hall) is cast as a native symbolic of all the natives, incredibly strong and brave, free as a bird and incapable of understanding restraint. His arrest, for striking...