Word: worth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...DARDEN Fort Worth...
...Government is negotiating for $10,000,000 worth of Alaskan spruce and hemlock for newsprint manufacture, a stimulant to pulpsters' interest in that territory. The U. S. now annually imports about 100,000 tons of newsprint, duty free, from Germany, Finland, Sweden, Norway. This amount is, however, negligible in the annual consumption of newsprint in the U. S., estimated (1928) at 3,600,000 tons...
Charged in the suit was that the defendants had conspired to defraud the government by arranging the sale of the seized Bosch property for $4,500,000, some $5,000,000 less than it was allegedly worth.* Since if the suit were won the proceeds would eventually go to the German Bosch Co, the petition to discontinue it seemed to indicate that Herr Bosch's agreement with the U. S. interests had become very complete indeed...
...striking fashion this year when the second of January falls on a Thursday, making it compulsory to attend classes on the Friday and Saturday directly after the holidays. To some this is perfectly reasonable, as enough classes meet in those days to make the return to Cambridge worth-while. But to those who are reading in all courses save one, the benefit to be gained from attending a single class on Friday or Saturday can hardly compensate for docking what would otherwise be three days off the vacation period...
Reading Mr. Morris one gets the feeling of sitting at the feet of a clear minded old campaigner who has one or two good stories to tell. The pages turn quickly, the style is pleasantly homely, the interest glows from one point to another. But its worth as a valuation of Whitman's art, in this reviewer's opinion, small...