Word: afforded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...internal value" of the pound would be untouched-it would buy just as much as before of products made at home, or of imports from sterling areas. Imports from dollar areas would cost more-most importantly, wheat from North America. Since the British government could afford no added food subsidies, consumers would pay the difference. Within a fortnight the price of bread would go up from 4? pence to sixpence. Experts predicted that the British cost of living would rise 5% in a few months...
Even so, Ben does not expect to have Citation ready to roll until winter. Casually, Ben adds, "We'll need him for those big stakes in California." Ben could afford to be casual about that announcement, but to other horsemen with an eye on the $100000 Santa Anita Handicap and sundry $50,000 prizes, Ben's words were big, solemn news...
...Othmar Best, editor of the Deutsche Allgemeim Zeitung in its Nazi heyday, had started the Nlirnberg Neue Kurier, and ex-Brownshirt Gustav Schellenberger inaugurated the Wiesbadener Tageblatt this week. Immediate effect of the new newspapers was not political but economic. In im poverished Germany, where the average reader can afford only one newspaper, and advertising is scarce, papers were fighting a cut-throat war this week for scanty circulation and advertising revenue. It was too soon to tell which papers would survive. But one small democratic newspaper, Straubing's Niederbayrische Nachrichten, had already succumbed; it was driven...
...period of two years must not even discuss pension plans with the nationalized boards running their industries. Said a Durham miners' leader: "Mind you, it's not that we trade unionists want to force the government into doing something the nationalized industries can't afford. We'd be perfectly willing to hold an inquiry on the point. But we're not going to be told by the government that we may not exercise the fundamental trade-union right of negotiating on the issue." In the end, a T.U.C. resolution attacking the cabinet's decision...
Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart, 41, who gave up being Hollywood's Most Eligible Bachelor five weeks ago, retired from another fast-moving field. After his souped-up F51 won the Bendix Trophy at Cleveland this week, he announced that the ship was for sale: "I can't afford both a wife and a plane...