Word: worth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mail, on postal savings, on its registry service. It loses on second-class matter (newspapers, magazines), fourth-class (parcels post), rural free delivery, air and marine mail. The only loss which President Hoover considers justifiable is on air mail which he feels is still in an experimental stage and worth the extra expenditure to advance commercial aviation...
...only to ambassadors or ministers and their wives, not to vice-consular ladies. Promptly the agents broke the seals, opened the trunks, lifted out laces, silks, and many a small tin box. The tin boxes contained a substance which the Customs men instantly recognized as opium?about $600,000 worth at current U. S. prices...
...Last week French customs agents noticed white powder seeping from packing cases addressed to Sirdar Al Ghulam Nabi Khan, Afghan Minister in Paris, just appointed Ambassador to Moscow. Four cases were seized, found to contain $33,000 worth of heroin...
France complained of general tariff increases. Ambassador Claudel declared the situation to "justify discontent, the manifestations of which are becoming more and more lively." He pointed out that French citizens bought an average of $6.39 worth of U. S. goods each year, whereas each U. S. citizen bought only $1.32 worth of French goods...
...last week were the citizens of Spencer, Ind. Farm Life was dying. More than a good friend, Farm Life had been their bread and butter, their one worth while industry...