Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Every Sunday night ten senders sat in a secluded room in Chicago's Merchandise Mart, concentrated gravely on cards and vegetables selected by a roulette wheel. Radio listeners tried to pickup the senders' thought waves, record the wheel's selections. In response to $600 worth of concentrating, 1,250,000 replies came in from some 100,000 receivers. In positive language the announcer told the listeners that they were picking them right with remarkable frequency. But Psychologist Goodfellow, after studying the results of 15 broadcasts, pricked Telepath McDonald's iridescent bubble. Though he found...
...school will take elementary school graduates, in four years turn them into butchers, bakers, grocers, waiters. The food industry has contributed $30,000 worth of equipment: a butcher shop with mechanical slicers, refrigerators, gleaming showcases and sawdust on the floor; a bakery; a grocery; a cafeteria with a soda fountain; a food bacteriology laboratory...
...utilities' argument is that the New Deal's TVA, its Public Utility Holding Company Act, its generally belligerent attitude, have made it next to impossible for utilities to float new security issues. Last week there was evidence to the contrary: investors snapped up $53,000,000 worth of utility bonds, making the month's total more than $160,000,000. But since most of these were refunding operations, the public's attitude on new capital investments was largely untested...
...Wall Street underwriters foresaw another upturn. Some 135 loans, big & small, had been announced. Suddenly a double disaster occurred. A $44,000,000 issue of new Pure Oil stock attracted so little interest underwriters had to put the bulk of it in cold storage; on $48,000,000 worth of Bethlehem Steel debentures underwriters were estimated to have lost $1,725,000. Other businesses contemplating new stock and bond issues called off their plans...
...practical, high-fidelity phonograph. If, argued Advertising Manager Joyce, more Record Players could be sold, everybody who owned a radio might catch the itch. Upshot of this idea: the Victor Record Society. Membership (at $14.95) in the Society, entitled the member to a $14.95 Record Player and $9 worth of Victor records. It also included a subscription to the Victor Record Society Review, whose pages dangled constant temptations before the eyes of the budding collector. Last week the Victor Record Society, now 23 weeks old, was luring members at the rate of nearly 2,000 per week...