Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Ickes announced that all the Public Works projects he is setting afoot will ultimately provide $1,001,200,000 worth of building material orders, 14,225,000 man-months of labor, $515,600,000 in direct wages...
...West Point to inspect the vast strong box she had had built in a corner of the Military Academy's reservation. Semi-sunken, its obdurate walls made of reinforced concrete, Mrs. Ross's strong box is to hold over a billion and a quarter dollars' worth of silver bullion purchased by the Treasury in Manhattan and now overflowing the Assay Office there. "This," said Mrs. Ross with a wave of her hand at the new vaults, "is just for cold storage...
...billion and a quarter in silver is approximately one million 1,000-oz. bars, each ounce worth $1.29 at the Government's statutory price, or 43? on the metal market. A thousand ounces is 62½ lb. To move a million such bars, a fleet of trucks was needed, and last week Mrs. Ross awarded her contract to Peter James Malley Jr., 38, of Manhattan, son and grandson of Irish truckers, who bid her 15? per bar for the 50-mile haul. Mr. Malley hauls most of New York City's whiskey, also dyes and chemicals. He figures...
...more than $124,000,000 on FHA loans. Loans to individuals. Banker Giannini believes, are the best of all credit risks-and personal loans pay 5% to 10%, well above the 1% to 3% conservative investments bring. Hence, Bank of America has plugged personal financing for all it is worth; its credit department approves 1,000 to 1,500 loans...
...that springtime of U. S. imperialism, Batopilas was a wonderful place to grow up in. The prosperous mines shipped as much as $200,000 worth of bullion a month. The native workmen were contented, friendly, pleased with their steady wages, the company store, the hospital, the electric lights, respectful toward the manager El Patron Grande and his sons, Los Patroncitos. The countryside was beautiful, with orange trees growing within high hacienda walls, with the swift Batopilas rushing beside the house, with ruins left by the Spaniards, who had worked the mines...