Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...courses in theory Economics 1 is much better than the half year course 2a, but it is open only to honors candidates. Professor Chamberlin lectures excellently in course 1, but there is still need for a half course such as 2a. Nearly all the advanced courses will be found worth while, but they cannot all be taken and must be chosen with the interests and the special field of the concentrator in mind. Course 21a was blamed for wasting the effort of Professor Frickey, for students claimed the material could be covered in less than a mouth. It is necessary...
...beams between airports but not at airports. If Congress makes a happy landing with some such legislation as the Hildebrandt Bill, now languishing in a House committee, the U. S. will pay for landing units at all important fields, and airlines will need to install only about $1,000-worth of receiving instruments in each plane...
...press-baiting. To appear before his lobby committee, he summoned Maurice Vallee Reynolds, publisher of Rural Progress, a farm monthly edited by Glenn Frank, chairman of the Republican Party's Program Committee. Based on the throw-away theory that the meagre income from cheap paid circulation is not worth the money and effort involved in getting it, the 20-odd-page, tabloid-size Rural Progress is mailed free to some 2,000,000 country homes in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio and Wisconsin. Theoretically it depends for its income on advertising alone -just as radio does. With...
...Culbert Olson, hotly denounce Governor Frank Merriam whenever he shows what they regard as partiality for Standard. Year ago, when a bill was passed prohibiting whip-stocking off Huntington Beach, Culbert Olson and his friends were pleased. But in the meantime Standard had whip-stocked out $5,000,000 worth of oil. Last October. Governor Merriam collected $518,000 royalties for the State-far too little, thought Culbert Olson...
...natural confusion and controversy are a hundred times confounded. Last winter, a special session of the California Legislature concerned itself with little else. For off Huntington Beach, Long Beach and Wilmington Beach in Los Angeles Harbor and up & down the California coast are pools of oil thought to be worth...