Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...While that was happening, the more visible moves of WPA were: 1) To approve Sidney Hillman's plan for buying $10,000,000 of men's and boys' clothes for distribution to relief clients (TIME, June 27). 2) To call for bids on $12,000,000 worth of cement, sand, gravel, crushed stone, paving asphalt. 3) To meet with President David Lasser of the Workers' Alliance of America (national union of WPA & relief workers) and hear his demand that WPA's minimum wage be raised from $21 per month...
...policy on Mr. Hill's life. Hearing of this. Jimmy Roosevelt called up Warm Springs, Ga. when Mr. Hill was visiting there. "Tell father to be nice to Mr. Hill," he told a secretary. "I want to get his insurance." He did, about $2,000,000 worth...
...stuff before the game, had hired two fife & drum corps and a couple of brass bands. At 9:45 when the grandstand customers who had paid $1.10 (and the 3,000 bleacherites who had paid 55?) felt that they had just about received their money's worth, the umpire croaked "Play ball." The visiting team was the Cincinnati Reds, MacPhail's old boys, most of whom he himself had rounded up from the minor leagues...
...rival, a peewee 3d. & 6d. store named John Thrifty. It was started by none other than that fabulous merchant, Harry Gordon Selfridge, who left Chicago to open London's first modern department store in 1909. Last year Self ridge's did $65,000,000 worth of business, some $20,000,000 of it in provincial divisions, at a profit of $4,000,000. One highly successful department was the 3d. & od. section. This fact, plus a growing certainty that England is slipping steadily into a business recession, are Merchant Selfridge's reasons for John Thrifty. He operated...
...where nine years ago a market in hide futures was started for hedging operations. Last week, Chicago's Mercantile Exchange, eyeing New York's success, started a hide futures market too. At the end of the first day Chicago's new market had handled $79,000 worth of business, precisely half the New York total...