Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sukarno's activities have long distressed Indonesia's democratic parties, and the chaos at the center has brought army revolts all over Indonesia, largely bloodless because the local commanders want to remain loyal to the central government, if only the government would prove worth its loyalty. In Djakarta last week, distressed by Communist gains and Sukarno's methods, sat Premier Djuanda Karta-widjaja, an able administrator who has been in virtually every Indonesian Cabinet since 1949. In his first interview with a foreign correspondent since taking office, Djuanda made it quietly clear last week to TIME Correspondent...
...isolation of Paraguay was not in keeping with Christ's injunction to let one's light shine before men. In 1953 they sent a group to settle at Rifton, N.Y. in the Catskill foothills. It has prospered, expects this year to make and sell $124,000 worth of children's toys...
...conclusions are calculatedly sober. Dr. Bowen's figures show that seeding by airplane achieved approximately 20% increase in the amount of rain that fell on the test region. For $225,000 a year, he estimates, he can drop extra rain worth $2,200,000 on a hydroelectric watershed...
...simple logistics: how to get singers, orchestra, engineers and equipment in the same place at the same time. Victor's chartmakers spent all winter planning recording schedules. The company transformed the Rome Opera's marble-floored foyer into a sound booth lined with $50,000 worth of triple-track tape recorders, loudspeakers, amplifiers and oscillators. With promotion and distribution costs, Victor figures to sink $250,000 in Butterfly with a relatively unknown cast of young singers headed by Philadelphia-bred Soprano Anna Moffo, $250,000 in Tosca, which features such established names as Soprano Zinka Milanov (Tosca), Tenor...
...Martin spoke, the U.S. Treasury once again demonstrated how tight the tight-money market is getting. To refinance $24 billion worth of maturing securities bearing coupons ranging between 1½% and 3¼%, the Treasury had to offer investors a choice of three separate issues, one at 3⅜%, the other two at 4%, with an option permitting buyers of one four-year issue to cash in their notes two years hence if rates meanwhile have gone still higher. The new interest rates were the highest in 24 years, but as a Treasury official said, "the lowest at which...