Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...white-marble mantel-arrived every morning last week at 7 a.m. (noon in London) to telephone his boss, Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr. in Finland, Sweden, Norway; to telephone the men in London who watch the English end of the tripartite monetary agreement. Mr. Hanes had $2,000,000,000 worth of stabilization funds to repulse panicky raids on the franc, pound, dollar...
...that the first advantage that shock gave the Fuhrer had passed. They said that a conviction that war was inevitable had settled over Europe. They said that if war came the countries were ready, that if peace came it could not be the peace of Munich. Danzig was not worth a war, but neither was it worth a peace. If peace came it could only come over bigger issues, the ending of tension, the cession of shocks and fears that all over Europe made life itself unbearable...
...Golden Gate Exposition was not set up like New York's World of Tomorrow. The New York Fair burdened itself with $26,995,000 worth of bonds which were supposedly to be paid off, and although it has operating profits of $4,105,000, it has still some $30,000,000 of bonds and debts...
...about 10% of the $50,000,000 invested in the Exposition. There are few figures to show whether the exhibitors who spent an estimated $13,000,000, the State which gave $5,000,000, and the Federal Government which spent $1,500,000 will get their money's worth. But there are data which indicate what the contributors of $6,000,000 to the Exposition corporation are getting in the form of business...
Harvard, whose property in this city of 100,000 exceeds the value of all other property combined, is always a battle ground for the local politicians. They point to its $164,000,000 worth of property and compare it to the paltry $161,000,000 on which they can levy taxes...