Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-six New York City cloth merchants rubbed their hands joyfully last month when the city ordered $67,092 worth of woolen goods to be made into winter coats for needy women & children by WPA workers. Last week city inspectors rejected half the cloth submitted. Twenty merchants had supplied good goods. Six others, with the bulk of the orders, had tried to palm off material containing moth holes, streaks, bare places, weak spots. Angered, Comptroller Joseph D. McGoldrick gave the six a chance to make good before publishing their names. Still hopeful, one shyster took back his shoddy, resubmitted...
...Fort Worth, Tex., he accepted a sombrero and said: "This is the nearest thing to Jimmy Walker [his playboy predecessor] that I've ever...
...British dodge of calming the public by having newspapers mention that John Bull was paying more attention to cricket scores than to the crisis was considered not worth trying in London this week, but in Manhattan the Journal-American made a brave effort with "WAR IN EUROPE WOULD HIT 6-DAY BIKE RACE...
...continued operation Hong Kong has replaced Shanghai as chief tea port. Tea exports from China last year increased by 4% over 1936, amounted to 406,572 quintals (89,632,863 pounds), valued at over $30,000,000. This year the Soviet Union has contracted to buy $15,000,000 worth. Already shipped to Hong Kong from Hankow this year are 15,000 half-chests (975,000 pounds) of brick tea from Hunan and Hupeh, about half of last year's stock...
...restrictions forbid the export of more than $12-$24 in cash after payment of passage. These blocked-marks may be sold only to the German Government Bank at a 92% discount. Last week it was revealed that since the start of the Nazi regime more than $500,000,000 worth of refugee property has been put under Government control...