Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...whistles: hauled out blueprints for a big war trade, prepared to jump capacity to peak-load production and tie it there. The Big Three of California plane-making-Lockheed, Douglas, North American-prepared to take on from 2,000 to 10,000 men to get out $110,000,000 worth of accumulated orders, with millions more to come. Without plant expansion the numerous California companies can build more than 700 aircraft of all kinds monthly-more than 8,000 a year...
...charge of partiality. Whether students favor our entrance into the war now or if England and France are losing, whether they favor an immediate peace conference, prohibition of loans and credits to belligerents, and denial of protection to U. S. citizens on belligerent ships are all things worth knowing. The poll therefore has a positive value which the Crimson completely neglects. Executive Committee, Harvard Student Union...
Murphys are acute in financial matters and seldom stand in the need of any patronage. I think it might be a mistake if Harvard were to change the rules and demand that every student should be a Murphy. Or, for that matter, a Wiggles-worth or a Saltonstall. If this matter of scholarships by name alone were carried to its ultimate conclusion, there might even come to be a university wholly restricted to Heywood Brouns, and then what would become of scholarship? --It Seems To Me--Heywood Broun...
...whole, as a historical biography of a bootlegger, "The Roaring Twenties" does a pretty good job,--but the real worth of the production is Cagney's performance...
...Moore-McCormack the deal was even better. Under U. S. Government charter and direct ownership the firm operates American Republics Line's passenger-freight service to South America. For that line, by late 1940, Moore-McCormack will have 14-$40,000,000 worth-new 9,000-to 12,000-ton, 16½-to 18-knot passenger-freight ships, constructed under the Maritime Commission's program for rebuilding the U. S. merchant marine. Seven of the new ships have already been launched. Faced with the loss of its Scandinavian-Baltic trade (American Scantic Line) for the duration...