Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feather jigs, and another provided wire lines for deeper trolling, but nothing worked until, on a tip messaged from a third helpful sportsman, the President ran into a sliver of luck: off Sandy Point, using a nickel-plated spoon, he hooked a single 20-in., 4-lb. bonito, hardly worth a tug on his heavy tackle...
...Signed into law 121 bills passed by Congress, among them the $887 million aid-to-education program, a $42 million excise tax cut, the debt limit hike to $288 billion, a 1½-year extension to the farm surplus program that has already disposed of $4 billion worth of crops...
...dream into a sort of solemn, deep-breathing Rorschach test, as stickily wholesome as Atlantic City's famed saltwater taffy. The girls are the chosen mascots of local civic and service clubs, are told to keep their eyes not on glamour but on more than $150,000 worth of scholarships contributed by business firms, and are constantly surrounded by ulcerescent chaperons, without whom they may not speak to any man, "including male members of their own families." Explained Hostess Chairman Mrs. John M. Alton: "Why, we had one father who was the handsomest thing you ever...
...obtaining capital, the bill also provides that losses up to $25,000 on small business stock may be claimed as ordinary losses by an individual instead of capital losses, which are limited as a deduction. But the issue of stock involved cannot exceed $500,000, and the combined worth of stock and equity capital in the company cannot exceed...
Birds & Bees. Last year Americans nibbled away $2,860,000 worth of Iranian and Russian sturgeon caviar, $1,000,000 worth of pâté de foie gras. Besides these two favorite standbys, last week's show brought out a cornucopia of new items. Chicago's Reese Finer Foods Inc. showed off a full pantry, from a $300 gift package of 60 items-Portuguese anchovies, Swiss candies, etc., stacked atop a barrel-based table-to 3½-oz. aerosol cans of cheese spread that sell for 59?. For the brave and the bold, there were the birds...