Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sprinkles through Franklin Roosevelt's speeches. From Justice Holmes he passed into the Wall Street law firm of Cotton, Franklin. Wright & Gordon. His take from the booming '20s was some promotion stock in a company he helped organize for one of his bosses. This stock became worth $250,000 but he could not sell it, still has it, depreciated but paying dividends. These he now lays by to pay, some day, for the stock which was given...
...reached this pass, cooling St. Louisans were inclined to change their angry tune. The American Artists' Congress warned against retarding cultural growth in St. Louis. The United Office and Professional Workers Union (C.I.O.) protested the proposal. Rich St. Louis families who have given the museum gifts and endowments worth $400,000 let it be known that these would lapse if the museum's administration were changed. Remarked the Museum Board's portly president, Architect Louis La Beaume: "There has been nothing like this since the monkey trial at Dayton, Tenn...
Then F. W. Dodge Corp. added a still more hopeful postscript: residential building contracts in August were 17% above August 1937. Financial Reporter thereupon declared that F. W. Dodge Corp.'s 37-State tabulation of $1,297,513,000 worth of construction awards in the first half of 1938 meant that "as far as the investor ... is concerned, this industry deserves close and serious consideration...
...shares Coalesced Co. (Mellon family holding company), at upwards of $10,000 a share, worth...
...shares Gulf Oil Corp. (control of whose 12.000,000 shares rests with the Mellons), worth...