Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Convair's B58 Hustler, a Mach 2 medium bomber (not yet operational). Both the B-52 and B58 require refueling on intercontinental missions, while the WS-110A should be able to fly from Chicago to Moscow and back without refueling. If the WS-110A prototype proves its worth, the plane could be in production in about five years, an important ace in the sky in the event that untried, untested intercontinental missiles do not live up to their advance billing-and perhaps even if they...
...intended originally to steer a noncommittally neutral course between East and West. He still may, but lately, possibly because the U.S. and France have been delivering their $55 million in development aid on schedule while the Chinese Communists have made good on just a fraction of the $22.9 million worth of cement, steel and textile shipments promised for 1957, his press has been outspokenly antiCommunist, and Cambodia has been voting more and more with...
...darn near was. Maverick Garner was giving Allen and his fellow TV Titan Ed Sullivan plenty to worry about on the Sunday-at-8 spot. Last week, for the fifth time. Maverick (7:30 to 8:30) outrode both of them in the Trendex derby-for what that is worth (and to TV and ad moguls it still seems to be worth millions). Also, Maverick for the first time kicked dust into the face of the almost peerless Jack Benny...
...rise in industrial expansion, piling up of business inventories and increases in consumer purchasing-the Fed squeezed tight on the nation's credit supply. As the demand for money kept rising, interest rates rose to the highest point since 1932. Even so, corporations floated some $12.7 billion worth of public securities. 16.5% more than ever before. As costs went up until they hit 4.5% for the biggest borrowers and 6% or more for smaller firms, many a corporation withdrew its issues and postponed plans for new plants...
...been for eight old-maid pallbearers, but the promise of a guinea apiece "was not large enough to overcome the shyness habitual to the maiden state; so, in the end, Mr. Hirst had to fall back upon widows, who, being more accessible, were regarded by him as not being worth more than half a crown each...