Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friends, and 2) the right people could help him promote his interests. He wanted Cafe Society recognition for himself and his wife, Paula. On Paula's wrist Radio and Cinema Comedian George Burns saw a nifty bracelet. Soon No. 1 Zany Gracie Allen (Mrs. Burns) had $4,885 worth of duty-free baubles like Paula's. Soon Supreme Court Justice Edgar J. Lauer's wife, Elma, had a duty-free Paris wardrobe just as pretty as Paula...
...friend, did not. Last week in Manhattan, when a Federal judge said, "a year and a day in prison," George ("Nat") Burns turned paler than a radio gag. But the judge proceeded: "I shall suspend execution of sentence during good behavior." Upshot was that on Gracie's $4.885 worth of jewels (for which her husband paid $2,000, and which she kept), George paid $8,000 fine, duty and penalties of $9,770-nearly two weeks...
...Williams held 96% of Central States' stock. By 1929 its shares had been split 60-for-1, the value of a single original share had risen from $10.50 to $5.660 and Mr. Williams' holdings amounted to 7,500,000 shares worth $612,000.000. Mr. Williams' yacht was the largest in the world...
...interest to less than 10%. Last week the pyramid was cut to two-story height. To liquidate North American Edison Co., huge intermediary holding company between it and the actual operating companies, and to refund some of its own outstanding obligations, North American Co. offered $70,000,000 worth of debentures and $34,829,000 in $50 par value preferred stock. A syndicate of 127 underwriters headed by Dillon, Read & Co. sold the issues like hot cakes...
...first wife was Dutch, his second White Russian, his third a pro-Nazi German. In 1937, after his third marriage, he retired from the directorship of Royal Dutch-Shell. At 70, worth $200,000,000, he was still ruddy, still sharp-eyed, still apoplectic in his hates, still pulling strings behind the European scene...