Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...oyster season, but it rang for few Britons. In the days of Charles Dickens oysters cost a penny a dozen and Sam Weller could comment truthfully on the "wery remarkable circumstance,' sir, that poverty and oysters always seem to go together." Today only the rich can afford oysters. The best Colchesters cost 16s. ($3.20) a dozen, Whitstable natives IDS. to 125. ($2 to $2.40), imported oysters from Holland and Brittany...
...House. The rising St. Laurent could afford a big house. Most of his legal business was unspectacular (company reorganizations and civil lawsuits), but profitable. He made a name by unraveling business snarls and working out compromises that satisfied opposing parties. It was a time when big British and U.S. companies were coming to Quebec to develop the province's timber, mineral and hydroelectric resources, and the biggest of them were St. Laurent's clients. He was regularly on the go (sometimes at a fee of $200 a day) pleading cases before the Supreme Court in Ottawa and the Privy Council...
According to union statistics, the steel companies could afford to pay. For the first half of 1949, the union said, profits of the 19 leading companies were estimated at $301 million, up 54.6% from 1948's first half (when operations were slowed down by a coal strike). In fact, said Nathan, profits had been even larger; many companies had hidden them in swollen depreciation funds. In the end, he argued, the raise would be good for the entire U.S., since "higher wages are proposed as a means of lifting buying power...
...equipment and modernization programs. This, and not increased labor efficiency, was the reason for higher productivity, they said. Furthermore, the rate of steel production had dropped 15% in the last six months and profits were down. Some small companies, like Lukens Steel Co., insisted that they could not afford to pay increases at the current rate of earnings. Said Lukens' Robert Wolcott: "Wage increases can't be paid out of past profits . . . [In] the four-week . . . period ending July 9, 1949 . . . Lukens . . . showed a net loss...
...Bryant, 58, who gave up his own boat six years ago, could afford to beam at this stunt; today's showboat skipper can usually count the house by counting the hoots. For eleven weeks, St. Louis playgoers had gone down to the Goldenrod's mooring by the cobblestoned levee and paid 75? a head to sass the actors in his hokum-logged version of Hamlet. Last week, on his way home from a lecture tour, Bryant tarried in St. Louis for five days to give the classic a fillip: his own appearance in the double role of Polonius...