Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California Shipbuilding Corp., and wearing two hats, launched himself into a 15-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week schedule. At Calship, Engineer McCone found ways to set production goals higher than anyone thought possible, saw to it that they were met. Result: Calship produced 467 ships worth a billion dollars. Since World War II's end he has taken over and built up a onetime iron works into the Joshua Hendy Corp., which operates a fleet of 40 to 50 tankers and cargo ships. To avoid conflict of interest with his AEC job, McCone has agreed to resign...
...great seafaring nation. Iceland explained it acted only from "the need to conserve" the cod and haddock. Icelanders themselves now net 48% of the catch (up 17% since before the war), and it furnishes 90% of their exports. Biggest customer: Soviet Russia, which last year bought $20 million worth...
...worldwide planting spree during the Korean war, is increasing at the annual rate of 5,000,000 to 7,000,000 bags. Hardest hit is the world's No. 1 producer, Brazil, which last year earned 61% of its foreign exchange by exporting 14.3 million bags* worth $935 million. This year, with much of the world's coffee selling for less than Brazil's rigidly fixed prices, the most optimistic export prediction is 13 million bags, worth $800 million. The Brazilian government has already paid for 15.4 million bags of surplus coffee it now holds...
Last week 20 college-bound Negroes from Houston (where a junior-senior high school was named for Worthing this year) got $4,000 scholarships in colleges of their choice. Total given so far by Worthing's trust, which will continue indefinitely: 130 scholarships worth...
...worth of such attempts of communication with the public can be illustrated by a comparison of two neighboring school districts in, again, Westchester County, N.Y. (Westchester, fabled to possess in all its towns and cities the best of all possible school systems, actually runs the gamut from outstanding to abominable, and is thus a suitable area for illustration and internal comparison.) The Board of Education of Mamaroneck decided several years ago that it was time to build an addition to the high school, held meetings and forums, convinced the daily paper to carry stories on the building, and with...