Word: affords
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poorman Fred C. Perkins, maker of automobile batteries in a factory shed at York, Pa. was fined $1,500 because he could not afford to pay 40? an hour wages commanded by the New Deal...
...minute a woman becomes pregnant certain hormones appear in her urine. If she wants to make sure of her pregnancy and can afford the expense, she may send a vial of her urine to her obstetrician. He will have a laboratory associate condense the specimen and inject some of it into the belly of a $1.50 virgin rabbit or a 20? virgin mouse. After two or three days the laboratory associate will kill the rabbit or mouse and examine its ovaries. If the ovaries are swollen, that shows that the woman is pregnant. The obstetrician then sends her the report...
...Temples insist that at all benefit shows she must have "top billing." This does not indicate that Shirley Temple has acquired stage conceit; she does not applaud her own picture on the screen. She still believes in Santa Claus. Apparently unaware that if she needs toys she can well afford to buy them, she spent last week scribbling requests for an electric train with lots of tracks, a tub for washing dolls' clothes...
...York State for a complete socialization of Medicine. What they wanted was a system whereunder every citizen would get free medical attention and every physician would get a steady State job. The Bronxmen have seen colleagues go hungry and vacate their offices because onetime patients, no longer able to afford private practice, now go to free clinics and hospitals. No one has ever counted how many U. S. doctors work for wages or calculated how much it would cost to hire them all. The Bronxmen figured that New York State's bill for medical charity now runs...
...present would, as a financial device defeat itself by greatly reducing attendance. Adequate scholarships would help solve the problem, but these rest almost invariably upon endowments or private gifts and wouId be subject to the same malign influences already pointed out. Whether the social order in America can afford seriously to cripple these endowed institutions and possibly to destroy some of them should be conscientiously considered by the advocates of taxation methods the results of which are reasonably certain ultimately to undermine the vitality of the universities...