Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that in June the U.S. cost of living had gone up a sharp one-half of 1% (to 120.2 with 1947-49 as base of 100) to its tenth successive alltime monthly high. This took the dollar down to 95? worth of a March 1956 dollar, 50? worth of a pre-World War II dollar. Down, too, during the past 16 months were the currencies of Britain, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Australia and Japan (about 5%), India (10%), Spain (11%), Argentina (16%), Brazil (27%) and Chile...
TREASURY TAX LOSS on fast write-offs for new defense industry will total between $4.3 billion and $4.9 billion by year's end. Though taxes on write-offs for $37.8 billion worth of defense expansion since 1950 will be paid in later years, Treasury will wind up with net loss of $530 million to $601 million if maximum corporate tax rate drops from 52% to 47% next June...
...loaning us money after seeing our books," says Jack Ayer of Trans-Texas Airways, which has never declared a dividend, last year netted barely $10,000 on operating revenues of $5,997,000. Almost every other feeder is in the same squeeze. When Central Airlines asked the Fort Worth National Bank for more than $2,000,000 to replace its DC-35, the bank could only take a sternly "dim view"; Central has already been to the bank 107 times since 1949, is still in the red. To buy a needed old DC-4, Alaska's Reeve Aleutian Airways...
...spoils on Calvary long ago. It is the prison custom not to send on the condemned man's last letters, but to bury them with him. As they are dropped in the grave, the prisoners grab for them. "Give us them bloody letters," says one. "They're worth money to one of the Sunday papers...
Legal Tender. In Lima, Ohio, Duane Fett and a pal were fined $5 each for creating a disturbance when a gas-station attendant refused to sell them i/ worth of gasoline, explained they were settling a bet on whether a man could buy that much...