Word: worth
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...Illusions. Despite such unkind cuts, upstart State now has $65 million worth of new buildings, including such symbols of affluence as a new library, an 18-hole golf course and a soccer team. In 1954, when Munn moved up to the post of athletic director, Duffy succeeded him on the football hot seat. In three seasons on the job, Duffy's curly auburn hair has picked up a heavy sprinkling of grey, but he shows no outward signs of pressure...
...small Roman Catholic college. But when Bishop Thomas Gorman began raising the necessary money, he found support enough for a more ambitious institution. Headed by Francis Brasted, 44, onetime director of the education department of the National Association of Manufacturers, the coeducational university not only provides the Dallas-Fort Worth area with a new liberal arts campus open to all faiths; it is also the only college in the area to take in Negroes on the undergraduate level. ¶Appointment of the week: Carroll Vincent Newsom, 52, to succeed Henry T. Heald as president of big (37.000 students) New York...
Furthermore, as companies expand and float new securities, still more money is being drawn away from existing issues. For the first nine months of 1956, almost $6 billion worth of bonds were floated v. $5.2 billion for the same period last year. In addition, new stock issues in the first three weeks of September alone climbed to $169 million v. only $55 million in all of August. Thus, the September market slump was not so much an urge to sell as a reluctance to buy; the trading was the lowest September level in two years. Most of the selling...
...production years. Japan's phenomenal recovery has been due largely 1) U.S. Government procurement orders, and 2) soaring exports, notably of cheap textiles and heavy machinery. Last week Japan's biggest industrial manufacturer. Hitachi Ltd., landed two fat new orders from India and Formosa for $830,000 worth of hydroelectric equipment and transformers...
...strongest answer comes from a large number of Democratic Party leaders, many of them top Stevenson advisers, who have long maintained that Truman should not even be given the opportunity to prove his worth to the party. In support of their position, they point to the 1952 defeat which they blame largely on Stevenson's association with the Truman record. If they had any doubts, Truman settled the matter last August when he said, "Stevenson is too defeatist to win." As if that were not enough, he added that Stevenson was allied with "Reactionaries." The topper came a few weeks...