Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hoofer role, he got rave notices. But the show did poor business, wound up its brief tour last week $10,000 in the red.* "Ten thousand dollars." said Baker, who is returning to radio to recoup before taking another crack at the stage, "is more than it was worth...
President Alvan Macauley of Packard remarked: "We measured what we had against what the other fellows had and thought it [free-licensing] not worth while." Packard has collected some $4,000,000 in patent royalties in 30 years, paid...
That patent monopoly has occasionally been used to the detriment of society, few would deny. Nor would many deny the basic worth of the 102-year-old U. S. patent concept-giving an inventor, who may have struggled for years, a 17-year monopoly on his idea. But there is evidence that invention is moving out of the garret and into the laboratories of Big Business. Packard's Macauley and General Motors' famed inventor, Charles F. Kettering, felt, however, that even in laboratories patents have value both as protection during the "shirt-losing" stage and as incentives. Said...
...Bost fills her quota of 200 wives & their husbands, the Palm Beach Biltmore stands to do $44,800 worth of extra business in bed & board, maybe that much more in fun & liquor. Another $26,600 lurks behind invitations to "100 of the most popular debutantes" of the season. Those who join this "Fledgeling's Fling in Florida" must bring along mother or a chaperon...
Residents of Oklahoma City, whose schools are ugly and overcrowded, several of whose school officials are in prison or under indictment (TIME, Dec. 5), last fortnight suffered even worse disgrace-loss of local pride. In 84-point type the Oklahoma City Times admitted: FORT WORTH SHAMES OKLAHOMA CITY...