Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...City caucus in khaki shirt and trousers, was promptly elected chairman. The first returns, from rural areas, gave Johnson a healthy lead. But the cities, touted as centers of overwhelming Shivers strength, were still to be heard from. The city results were stunning: Shivers barely held Dallas, while Fort Worth, Houston and El Paso went to Johnson. The rout was complete...
...62nd annual convention of the Pennsylvania Bankers Association. Next day, his state's Democratic Party again in the hands of the loyalists, and his rival a presidential possibility of greatly increased stature, Shivers went to Washington for a television appearance. For all his Texas political future was worth, he might as well have stayed there...
...throne-at exactly the auspicious moment of 10:43 a-m-the nead Priest, moving carefully so as not to knock off the young King's glasses, placed upon the monarch's head a peaked helmet adorned with bird-of-paradise feathers* and some $2,000,000 worth of precious gems...
...expectable statistical wonders. Per-capita national income went from $122 in 1940 to $434 in 1954, v. 1954's $201 in the neighboring Dominican Republic, $538 in West Germany. $1,845 on the U.S. mainland. As a market for the continental U.S., the island, buying $584 million worth of goods last year, outranks all foreign countries except Canada, Mexico, the United Kingdom and Japan...
Item: In Fort Worth 16-year-olds have carved his name into their forearms with clasp knives (one did it four times), and an older woman was heard to plead with him: "I've got my husband's Cadillac outside. Come with...