Word: worth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...outside Mulheim, in the Ruhr Valley, making hoop-iron at first. In 50 years he came to own coal fields in the Ruhr and iron-ore concessions in Lorraine and Northern France, and to employ 25,000 workers. When he died in 1926 at 84 he left an estate worth more than...
Under Nazi rule Herr Thyssen became economic dictator of heavy industry, member of the Prussian State Council, a Reichstag member, chairman of a dozen boards. He had no more labor troubles on his hands, since the Nazis suppressed the unions. Rearmament brought millions of marks' worth of orders to the steel mills. The Thyssen empire prospered again...
...fights, frenzies, some praise and a lot of dough, and a good deal of fun in my relationship with Roy." Said Roy Howard, also polite, in a note appended to Broun's column: "Heywood was occasionally a bit of a headache. But like many another headache, he was worth the price...
...Continental, Editor Kelly gave exclusive contracts for five years with four canneries, which use some $1,000,000 worth of cans a year. That means about $750,000 of new business annually for the canmaker, for three of the canneries were new customers. In return, Continental Can agreed to put up a $500,000 can factory. The canners figure on saving $100,000 a year on freight charges by having a factory in Walla Walla. The town figures the new plant will provide a yearly payroll...
...green peas, hand-picked and hulled. That year, 1932, the cannery shipped 60 sample cases of canned peas to U. S. grocers. This year seven regional canneries (two in Walla Walla) turned out 2,650,000 cases of canned green peas (one-sixth of U. S. canned pea production) worth some...