Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nightmare to peace-loving Britons and Frenchmen is the vision of thousands of Nazi bombers thundering over London and Paris in wave after wave, blasting their populations to smithereens. Last September, in face of this horror, the fate of Czecho-Slovakia hardly seemed worth bothering about...
...many of the more significant paragraphs have been unofficially translated by correspondents and special writers that practically no surprises are left. Among the livelier, least truthful and lesser-known assertions, however, one about the U. S. is worth attention...
...disobedience campaign. She was thrown in jail. Meanwhile, the Indian National Congress voted down Gandhi's Rightist candidate for President, elected instead Subhas Chander Bose, a prominent Leftist. Last week Saint Gandhi decided to stop eating. Doctors warned against the fast, but he replied that he was not worth much in insurance. He quickly lost two pounds. His feet puffed up with dropsical swelling. Early this week he was in a desperate condition...
That year he began borrowing heavily on his newspapers and real estate, carelessly scrawling his signature as further security for the debts. By 1930 banks had floated $60,000,000 worth of bonds and mortgages personally guaranteed by Hearst. Meanwhile the stockmarket had crashed and Hearst was strapped again...
...papers (on which he had previously borrowed $20,000,000), four other profitable newspapers and the superprofitable American Weekly into Hearst Consolidated Publications Inc. He valued "circulation, press franchises, libraries, etc." at $75,000,000, and with a barrage of publicity denouncing phony stock schemes sold $50,000,000 worth of preferred stock to the public...