Word: worth
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great Marlborough himself was no more punctilious than Capt. von Muller of the Emden. It was his boast that between August and November 1914 the Emden destroyed 20 million dollars worth of enemy shipping, mostly British, without the loss of a single life. True, the Emden sailed the Pacific under a British flag, disguised, with the aid of a disappearing canvas funnel, as the British cruiser Yarmouth. But within 1,000 yds. of her prey the behavior of the Emden was always scrupulously correct. Down came the flag and the dummy funnel; out broke the German ensign...
...last week released by the Manhattan Merchants' Association, Quoting from the 1927 Federal Census of Manufacturers, the Merchants' Association stated that in 1927 factories in New York City produced 9% of the total U. S. 1927 output. New York factories turned out nearly six billion dollars' worth of merchandise. Production of the entire country was valued at about 63 billion dollars...
...them containing one pound of salmon flesh, are filled in 135 canneries in Alaska and in 64 in Washington, Oregon, California. Forty-eight cans are packed in a case. In 1928 the canneries turned out nearly 7,000,000 cases at about $9 per case (circa $60,000,000 worth). In 1927 about 40% less salmon jumped into cans than in 1926 or 1928. This was no surprise to salmon packers, who know that every third or fourth year, for some mysterious reason, the "run" of salmon dwindles sharply. Important are these members of the salmon family: King, or Chinook...
...announced that the Curtis rent was "something around $10,000 a year" and added: "We went after the Vice President and Mrs. Gann with the most attractive proposition we could afford. . . . We are glad to have him here. ... It is an honor and, to be perfectly frank, it is worth a lot of money in advertising...
...them from secondary schools. It is during the four or five pre-college year that one's habits of study and interest in learning are most easily formed. Theoretically it should be the time for "quickening the appetite for intellectual things, making men realize that working hard is worth while." But owing to the many complications arising in our present system, it is not until a man gets to college that anything like this happens, and how often it is then too late. Admittedly the problem of secondary education in America is a hard one. The "tyranny of fashion" which...