Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Main Ball Room suite of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, 1,500 guests enjoyed some $50,000 worth of entertainment in honor of the coming out of Brenda Diana Duff Frazier. The social spectrum ranged from Cafe Society's fat impresario, Elsa Maxwell, to Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt. The proceedings which lasted till 7 a. m. were news not only in Manhattan but in Chicago, Minneapolis, San Francisco, St. Louis, Atlanta, Seattle, Los Angeles. Two days later an official seal was set on Brenda Frazier's glamor by a court accounting showing that this "infant over 14" has several trust...
...theory whose truth is yet to be proved. The events he ascribes to Machiavellian tactics may be in truth the product of weakness and indecision. "Human drift and stupidity may attain heights beyond imagination, which observers are constantly tempted to ascribe to some planned motives." Nevertheless, the book is worth while for those who are interested in a variety of different interpretations of the historical role of the Munich settlement...
...back in nineteen twenty-five In old Fort Worth, there did arrive A man and wife, one girl, two boys; To make a living and make a noise...
Fortnight ago the U. S. Export-Import Bank granted China $25,000,000 worth of credit for the purchase of American agricultural implements and machinery. Prompt use of this credit was made last week when China purchased 1,000 trucks from Chrysler and General Motors which could be used to carry Russian supplies over her new motor road from Siberia...
...week's end the case was still full of explosive possibilities. Investigation of McKesson & Robbins' activities involved a brace of Connecticut politicians and Congressman Wright Patman. Executive Vice President Charles F. Michaels was revealed to have unloaded $118,500 worth of common stock a month before the receivership. Hollywood set to work on a Musica movie...