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...system of wireless transmission. A scarehead newspaper heard his prophecy that soon ships at sea would call electrically for help, to other ships or shore stations, without having any wired connection. The scarehead editor, well aware of his sheet's reputation, said: "We could not afford to print such a piece of inventive lunacy...
...Ford has been operating his plants as little as two or three days a week lately?a most expensive way to operate?and since he is under every compulsion to sell his new car, he cannot afford to indulge in any hobbies which create enemies and sales resistance...
...professor was M. Mortensen of the dairy department of Iowa State College. He addressed the American Institute of Co-operation at Chicago: "The individual who may be interested in cheese making is at present likely to become somewhat discouraged. The cheese industry of the United States can well afford to invest a fair sum of money in advertising its product. There is no other food product to be had in which nutritive value, wholesomeness and palatability are so well combined. It is unnatural that there should be only a limited effort of the manufacturers. Education and advertising should create...
...expectation of the wife's bearing children, that other marriages are entered into with no such expectation. Why not, urges Judge Lindsey, recognize the childless marriage as a different but legal form of union? Let a boy and a girl who wish to marry, but who cannot well afford to have children, marry and, with the aid of widespread birth-control knowledge, take care that they have no children. Then, if they do not get along with each other and wish to separate, let them be granted a divorce on grounds of mutual consent and take up single life...
Hadn't the apartment company promised them ? Couldn't the company afford it? Didn't they deserve it? Sure and they did, said Messrs. Healy and Tiernan. They called John Dacey, another elevator man in the building, to come, have a drink and agree with them...