Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...question which remains open is how much the Government can afford to pay all the aged. Intelligent people agree the Townsend Plan is absurd; the Roosevelt Social Security Bill, however, is still open to doubt, whether the provision of the eventual 9.3% pay-roll tax of 1949, and $15 to $20 per month payments, lies above or below the humane and the possible...
...produced some 800 works-oils, water colors, etchings. Record price for Marin water colors was reached in 1928, when one went for $6,100. Yet Dealer Stieglitz has let some go for as little as $100 apiece, provided he thought the purchaser a worthy person who could not afford more...
...assistant, an electrical engineer, an errand boy, a stenographer, an insurance clerk and a job printer, mechanical dexterity came easy. Studying painting at various times with William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, Max Kuehne started making his own picture frames because he could not afford to buy any. It was not long before he was making many of the frames for the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., the Whitney Museum in Manhattan. From frames he went in for furniture, later for lacquer screens...
...Among the wives was the Dictator's. Millions of Italian women, unlike their Queen, reacted first to their new iron rings by at once trying them on. Since the warm Latin temperament packs super-sentiment into one's own particular wedding ring. Italians who could afford it pack-jammed every jewelry shop in the Kingdom to buy new gold rings for some 250 lire each ($20) to drop into the urns while they hide away their own golden treasures and wear the ugly iron of patriotism. Eight years ago at the watering place of Agnano, the present Emperor...
...heating is a luxury because it takes about $48 worth to equal a ton of coal. Three-fourths of that cost goes for distribution. If it were consumed on a vast scale in factories and homes the cost would be diminished to a point where few people could afford not to use it. Then U. S. grime would be localized in the mining centres which would send out not only fuel by pipeline but electric current by long-distance superconducting cables...