Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argument over Southern strategy in fighting a proposed change in the Senate's cloture rule, and Johnson sided with Russell, who was both pleased and impressed. A few days later Russell tipped off Texas reporters that Johnson was about to make a Senate speech that would be worth a story. From that beginning came a close friendship...
...Korean boy named Kim Choon II was nabbed by a guard inside the Eighth Army's aircraft maintenance center at Ascom City, 15 miles west of Seoul. He had broken into noncommissioned officers' quarters, pocketed a traveling clock, cigarette lighter, flashlight, two PX ration books, $6 worth of scrip. He was frog-marched to the guardroom, where a group of U.S. officers and enlisted men, irked by 20 burglaries in six weeks, decided to teach Kim a lesson...
...state, incumbent or elected, to visit Washington in over two years, and his welcome was warm. It grew even warmer when the visitor made it plain that he had not come begging. At breakfast with President Eisenhower in the White House, he spoke gratefully of some $80 million worth of dollar aid given his assassinated predecessor, U.S.-favored Carlos Castillo Armas. With about $35 million of the aid funds still unspent, Ydigoras said that the only additional aid he might need would be a relatively modest sum for fighting malaria and hookworm disease. He told State Department Inter-American Affairs...
...Hanna announced that it had control of St. John D'el Key and would operate it. The details of the deal were secret, but there was no secret about the richness of the prize. Though D'el Key's British owners dug nearly $300 million worth of gold over the years from a maze of galleries running five miles into the earth, they never laid a serious shovel on the iron. In fact, they had bought the lematite ridges humping hundreds of feet high around the property only to protect water rights for their gold mining. Hanna...
Last week Burnett landed the Chrysler corporate account, worth about half of Chrysler's current ad budget of $16.5 million (down some $10 million because of lagging Chrysler sales). Later Chrysler also announced that Burnett will handle the Chrysler export passenger-car account as well. Leo Burnett will now have the chance to show the new images needed to stop Chrysler's slide in sales...