Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long has the U. S. been in the habit of giving Europe advice which hasn't been worth the paper printed on. We don't want America's counsel...
...holders in Berlin, more than $4,000,000 in Vienna. The New York Times estimated that total damage to Jewish property in Germany "may possibly reach one billion marks" ($400,000,000). The Times thought that the Jewish community this week, after all depredations, still owned property in Germany worth perhaps four billion marks ($1,600,000,000) and, before Hitler, may have owned 20 billions...
That J. Stalin will pay out good money when he sees a chance to get his money's worth is nothing new. In China, where J. Stalin-an Asiatic-believes the underdogs have guts to fight, the outpouring of money, munitions, war planes and supplies of all kinds from the Soviet Union makes a mere $2,000,000 look like pink chicken feed...
Last week in Stockholm, the Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that this year's Nobel Prize for Physics would go to Professor Fermi. This highest honor a physicist can win is worth more than $40,000 at current exchange rates...
...building would cost solely from textbooks. Professor Cubberley decided to increase his fund in the stockmarket. Truth is at times as strange as the cinema. He studied market trends, invested in carefully selected securities so wisely that in 1933 he was able to give President Wilbur securities then worth $367,000. Still short of his goal, Dr. Cubberley asked the University to hold his investments until earnings raised the total...