Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...auction. Originally the judge in charge of the sale insisted that the bidding start at 2,500,000 pesos. He was abruptly dismissed from his post. His successor lowered the starting bid by 800,000 pesos, and Rojas, the sole bidder, snapped up for 1,700,000 an estate worth an estimated...
...educator") and loyal friends ("He has the good will of all. I don't know anybody who isn't his friend"), all in all managed to chalk up quite a record: in 16 years, the University's research increased tenfold, its campus grew by $79 million worth of new buildings, its enrollment rose from...
...street with a brief bulletin on the case. Half an hour later the tabloid's big second edition bannered the kidnaping on Page One, ran a full account inside. MacDonald promptly called the other morning papers to release them from their pledges. The News, for what it was worth, had scored a clean beat...
...some critics the problem is not so much what SEC does as what it does not do. Originally set up to control an industry marketing about $2.8 billion worth of new corporate securities annually, it must now regulate a booming giant growing at the rate of $10 billion annually. In 1955 some 4.000 stock and bond issues worth an estimated $340 billion were traded on U.S. exchanges, another 3,500 stock issues worth nearly $40 billion on the over-the-counter market. With the new boom in mutual funds and monthly investment plans, there are more shareholders trading more stock...
...alone, there were 1,628 such issues worth $296 million, many of them in chancy mining operations...