Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million loan to start construction at Aswan. Aided by Britain ($14 million) and the World Bank ($200 million), the U.S. was willing to supply the major part of the capital to finish the mighty three-mile dam. But the offer was left dangling. Nasser, who had mortgaged $200 million worth of cotton not yet planted as barter for Czechoslovakian weapons, occupied himself by recognizing Red China and by planning a trip to Moscow. And when Soviet Minister Dmitri Shepilov visited Cairo last month, Nasser's spokesman whispered that Russia had renewed its offer to finance the dam with...
Washington's generous Hostess-with-Mostes' Perle Mesta was sued by a former niece-in-law, Mrs. Idel Tyson (now divorced from Perle's nephew). The charge: Perle had helped haul off $8,700 worth of household goods from Idel's Washington apartment while Idel was off in Europe...
...each other -though that was all we had to talk about the first night." To their own surprise, the biggest hit was the poetry readings by ex-Rhodes Scholar Edward Weismiller. "I pay $2.50 for a book," said an insurance company vice president, "and I get $2.50's worth of good out of it. But that Weismiller gets $10,000 out of the same book." Added Gorden E. Willett, a Farmers Insurance Group office manager: "I used to think that poetry was fine for the other fellow but not for me. Now I know better...
...Fermi's achievement in Chicago (Dec. 2, 1942) of the world's first nuclear chain reaction. Espionage may have helped them. At any rate, they seem to have been convinced, long before the U.S. exploded its first atom bomb (July 16, 1945), that atomic weapons were well worth trying...
...million annual business. Then, in the past five years, it trebled in size. Last week, Kerr-McGee spread itself still wider. It put together a combine with uranium ore reserves estimated at some 5,000,000 tons on the Colorado Plateau (total U.S. reserves: 30 million tons), worth some $200 million. If Kermac builds a $20 million processing mill next year, it may well become the second biggest (next to Anaconda Co.) uranium producer...