Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sliced into the huge stocks of Government-held farm surpluses by negotiating an agreement with Brazil under which 1) the U.S. will sell the Rio government $138,700,000 worth of the surplus, most of it ($111,000,000) in wheat; 2) Brazil will make payment in nondollar currency, i.e., cruzeiros; and 3) the U.S. in turn (under the terms of the 1954 Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act) will use the currency to finance economic and other development projects in Brazil...
From an Old Enemy. The reason for Franco's sudden mildness was not far to seek. Since 1936 Russia has been sitting on more than half a billion dollars worth of Spanish gold. When the civil war was only three months old, pro-Communist Finance Minister Juan Negrin secretly ordered 7,800 crates of gold out of the Bank of Spain, had it trucked to Cartagena and then shipped to Russia in charge of four bank officials, for "safekeeping." The Russians kept the Loyalist officials in Moscow for months, counting and recounting the gold. By the time they were...
Last week Franco dispatched a three-man commission to Moscow, officially to discuss repatriation of Spanish citizens, but believed to be secretly empowered to open negotiations for return of the bullion. In Franco's hard pressed condition, it was certainly well worth...
...trade with Iron Curtain countries-mostly to its own advantage. Reversing the usual form of colonial exploitation, in which colonies are used as sources of raw materials, Russia feeds the satellites raw materials, takes the finished products they manufacture. Czechoslovakia, for example, did 5.5 billion crowns ($770,000,000) worth of trade with Russia in 1955, giving engineering products in return for metals, petroleum, rubber, timber...
...area to their own Alma Mater, one wonders whether they believe in the original, "superior," Ivy League "way". Last November 24th, 40,000 people at the Stadium paid about five dollars a head to see eleven Blue shirts prove their superiority over eleven Crimson ones. This was $200,000 worth of recreation, which is real...