Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine title Collier's and for Crowell-Collier's Reader's Service, a subscription company that sold Collier's and other magazines. Cowles also lent Crowell-Collier $1,000.000. In addition, Cowles agreed to assume responsibility for $11 million worth of unexpired Collier's subscriptions, said that former Collier's readers will have the choice of taking Look or "any one of several other magazines" or, if they insisted, cash refunds. Hearst's Good Housekeeping and McCall's were dickering for Companion subscriptions; Curtis Publishing Co. (Saturday Evening Post, Ladies' Home...
...that was definitely left of Crowell-Collier was a record-club division, Los Angeles Radio Station KFWB, a leasehold on the Crowell-Collier Building (worth up to $800,000), and P. F. Collier & Son Corp., the book-publishing subsidiary, which, said Lannan, a director of Manhattan publisher Henry Holt...
...first time last week, the Atomic Energy Commission disclosed the full size and scope of one of the nation's newest and most vital industries. In a few brief years the mining and processing of uranium has grown from a midget industry into a giant, with an output worth more than $100 million a year. In 1956 alone, the AEC's figures revealed, the industry processed 3,000,000 tons of raw ore into 6,000 tons of uranium concentrate (one ton of concentrate contains 11 Ibs. of U-235, the reactor fuel...
...Golden Tri angle business district, where no new office building had been put up between 1930 and 1945, one-fourth of the area has been rebuilt in ten years, raising assessed property value by 25%. Now Pittsburgh is opening the second round of its rebirth. All told, $150 million worth of new buildings are under construction or due to start next year. On the downtown fringes, Pittsburgh is spending another $100 million to clean out the wormy Hill District slums-95 acres of cobbled streets, blighted homes, vice, crime and poverty. Much of it should be completed in time...
...utilizing the prime contractors who are producing planes and missiles, are already tooled up to repair and overhaul the weapons. Lockheed Aircraft, for example, has set up a separate subsidiary just to handle maintenance and overhaul, now employs more than 6,000 people, expects to do $50 million worth of work this year...