Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Principally on the urgings of Senators from flood-suffering New York and New England, the Senate approved (61-7) and sent to the House a bill authorizing the U.S. to sell $5 billion worth of flood insurance and pay 40% of the policy costs. The program sets limits of $10,000 for a house and $250,000 for an individual or corporation, amounts to a pilot test to see how the Government can operate most effectively in a high-premium field that private insurance companies shun...
Until the scientists determine the extent--at which time the defense chiefs and the public can decide whether the bomb is worth the price--the U.S. should discontinue all H-bomb tests. Military defense should not be harmed, since the stockpile of A-bombs is already large enough to act as a powerful deterrent to any potential aggressor, and since the current military race seems to be aimed at the non-atomic intercontinental ballistic missile. If the result of continued nuclear tests will be a biologically deformed species, the defense is of doubtful value. Until scientists are certain that this...
What troubles the movie is that the familiar lines sometimes sound silly in another language, especially since it is Russian. Making a concession to the titles though, the movie is well worth seeing. There is also a short of songs of the Auvergne...
...start it was sorry. In the first fast dash past the grandstand, Needles was 16th in a field of 17. Jockey Dave Erb was as worried as his backers. Needles had let loose his bit, seemed uninterested in running. Up front, Calumet Farm's Fabius and Rex Ells worth's Terrang dueled for the lead...
...Bully Them." The odds are that Poetry London-New York will not prove the securest of jobs for Tambi. But the initial printing of 4,000 copies sold out; a supplementary printing of 2,000 was going fast at week's end, and readers got a good 75? worth. Among the familiar universal themes of love, life, courage, birth and death, the magazine tucks in such old-fashioned surprises full of simpler merits as a bit of verse called The Rift by Walter de la Mare...