Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President James Monroe Smith, who must answer to 38 other charges and indictments; Dr. Smith's wife's nephew, John Emory Adams; and Louis C. LeSage, a previously suspended executive of Standard Oil Co. of Louisiana. All were charged with "selling" to the university $75,000 worth of furnishings which came from a hotel which the State had already bought, and pocketing the proceeds. Oetje John Rogge was able to turn this boodling into a Federal offense by showing that banks in Baton Rouge and New Orleans cleared the checks by mail...
...probably brought her about as much trouble as any country south of the Rio Grande. With a presidential election coming up next year that is almost sure to cause trouble, Mexico was faced with another period of money shortage. Germany had lately been buying some $2,000,000 worth of expropriated oil a month up to September 1. The Mexican Government missed the cash. The manufactured goods Mexico had been getting from the Reich she stopped getting, leaving the market to the U. S., with which Mexico is reluctant to trade. Then there was trouble about the nine refugee ships...
...Prize that Walther von Brauchitsch had won for Germany was, from a military standpoint, well worth its cost in men and machines. "At almost the precise moment" that England blockaded Germany, as Field Marshal Goring remarked last fortnight, Germany got her hands on Poland's rich coal fields. Poland's production of 36,000,000 tons a year will increase the Reich's coal supply to some 220,000,000 tons-if she can hold the coal-producing Saar into which France was pushing last week. If France takes or cripples the Saar, Germany will be little...
...Morgan syndicate and became the $2,000,000-a-year chairman of U. S. Steel Corp. Because "I wanted to be a tsar" Charlie Schwab got out of U. S. Steel and founded Bethlehem, which during the first two years of World War I sold $225,000,000 worth of munitions to Great Britain and Russia. Drafted by Wilson as director of the Emergency Fleet Corp. in 1917, in two years Schwab put a U. S. Merchant Marine on the seas. After the war he went back to making and spending millions: he hobnobbed with Sir Basil Zaharoff, Lord Rothermere...
...heartened by the success of his crude "Batwing," he drafted plans for the first all-metal commercial plane. To some 100 U. S. industrialists went Inventor Stout, asked them for $1,000 each. Said he: "You may never get your money back, but you'll have $1,000 worth...