Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last-minute report to the President he declared that bids submitted for a dozen new cargo vessels were, so high that acceptance was out of the question. The bids averaged about $2,700,000 per ship, three times the cost in Britain. Since private shipping lines "simply cannot afford to build at these prices even with Government assistance," Mr. Kennedy explained, the only three practical alternatives were: 1) establishment of new shipyards; 2) allow building abroad when the domestic price was more than twice the foreign price; or 3) put the Government in the shipbuilding business, the "last resort...
There are many reasons for this state of affairs. In the first place the Harvard Music Department cannot afford a truly worthwhile investment like Mlle. Boulanger, for the authorities do not even supply enough money to take care of the courses already in progress. In the second place, like certain interests who are afraid of competition from foreign coolie labor, the authorities object to women on the Harvard Faculty and put up a tariff against them. Harvard Faculty women now number three--and they were only admitted after a noisy struggle...
...England police or challenge the world. He said that the bill itself would contain a "definite statement of what the fundamental naval policy of this country is," proceeded to read it. The bill defined the fundamental naval policy of the U. S. to be maintaining a Navy adequate to afford "protection to the coastline in both oceans at one and the same time; to protect the Panama Canal, Alaska, Hawaii and our insular possessions; . . . to guarantee our national security, but not aggression; . . . provide a defense that will keep any potential enemy away from our shores...
...confused with the pneumonia serums now given to help victims of pneumonia recover. The cost of these serums and of preliminary tests necessary to determine which of 32 types of pneumonia a patient may have, is comparatively high, so that as yet only the rich can afford them, or the very poor, to whom several States this winter have supplied serum free...
...Harvard treasury was definitely car-marked by its donor for a particular purpose, and the fund which supports the Fogg Museum, for example, could not be applied to taxes on Lowell House. In spite of its rich endowment, Harvard, like every other educational institution, can under no condition afford to bear the burden of state taxation...