Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mild coffee, which customarily commands 4^ or 5^ more than Brazil's standard grades, now brings a fat 20? differential. And the rain damage seems to have been vastly overstated. The nearly harvested crop, Colombians now say privately, will permit export of at least 6,200,000 bags, worth up to $650 million to Colombia's coffeegrowers...
...state's request by unofficial representatives of major religious groups. The program emphasizes five "moral and spiritual cornerstones which are so commonly accepted as parts of our democracy that they can be taught in the public schools." Samples: "Man is a spiritual being of dignity and worth by virtue of the fact that he has his origin and destiny in God his Creator"; "All men are created equal in that they have equal worth in the sight of God . . ." The program can be accepted or not at the discretion of individual schools. ¶ To the mountain of statistics already...
...family buys a car or a TV set, its cash outlay for public transportation or entertainment decreases. Moreover, while the U.S. citizen in 1956 owes more, he also owns more. Per-capita savings have risen to $1,300 from $330 in 1939. Consumers' assets (including $200 billion worth of stocks, equities in life insurance and pension funds, etc.) are worth $600 billion, more than four times the 1939 level. Unlike 1929, the U.S. investor owes proportionately little ($2 billion) on stocks...
...silver, paper and every other substance used to back currency. From early colonial days, when they had to ship scarce gold and silver abroad to pay for imports, Americans chronically lacked sufficient backing for stable money. Virginia in the 17th century used tobacco for money (top-grade weed was worth 3$. a lb.), but was plunged into inflation by citizens' cash crops...
...stockholders and its Motlow brothers, who owned 55% of the company, took control of the distillery. The price: $20 million in cash. Jack Daniel's 54-bbl. daily production is only a drop in Brown-Forman's (500 bbls. daily) bucket. But the name is well worth the price. Brown-Forman President George Garvin Brown carefully and promptly announced that the Motlows will still run Jack Daniel's in the same old way. But it was still the kind of news to sadden whisky sippers everywhere, and none more than those in Tennessee. Wrote the Nashville Tennessean...