Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...neighbors on Mount Desert Island, however, admire and like J.D.R. Jr. built the way he is. "There's a lot of Yankee in Mr. Rockefeller," said one. "He's short on talk, long on deeds." J.D.R. Jr., as everyone on Mount Desert Island knows, is worth something close to $1 billion. He is also, as everyone knows, the only son of the man who was counted in another day and another dollar the richest man in the world. "I was born into it," he once explained, "and there was nothing I could do about it. It was there...
...Japan, which is "flooding" domestic markets with cheap finished cotton goods, forcing the closing of some U.S. mills. Actually, Japanese exports to the U.S. are barely 2½% of the U.S. cotton-goods market. Moreover, Japan is also one of cotton's best customers, bought $120 million worth of raw cotton last year from the U.S. To still the protests, the U.S. has worked out agreements for voluntary curbs, e.g., Japan has pledged to limit exports to the U.S. of cotton cloth, blouses...
...worth $1,600,000. He is also a Red-hot Marxist and a major character in a matter of increasing concern to the U.S.: Western Europe's mounting exchange with Red China. In the four years since Dino Gentili clamped a half nelson on Italy's China trade, he has pushed it from almost zero to $1,000,000-plus a month. Italy has now climbed to third place (behind Britain and West Germany) among Western European nations in trade with the Chinese mainland...
...fuel for eight swept-wing jets as they snuggled up, four at a time, behind trailing funnel-fitted hoses. Even bigger news was Convair's new B58 Hustler bomber, a plane eight years in development as the nation's first truly supersonic long-range bomber. At Fort Worth, a cameraman for the Star-Telegram snapped a picture of the Hustler as it was rolled out of the hangar for its first ground tests and test flight...
...Worth Defending? Feeling a desperate need for some sort of morale-saving fight, Washington quickly sent two small forces of Rhode Islanders, Virginians and Connecticut Rangers south across the Hollow Way (approximately 125th Street), and soon a brisk tussle started for possession of a buckwheat field atop the heights on which Columbia University and Riverside Church now stand. Though Knowlton (after saying, "I do not value my life if we do but get the day") fell mortally wounded, the Continentals fought their way out of the rocks and for the first time "had the pleasure of seeing the backs...