Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...white caps. Frederic Sackrider Remington's The Scout is the epitome of high adventure in the old Wild West, breathing romance that decades of western movie thrillers have failed to dull. Both paintings are just the thing to make any passing motorist feel that the stop was highly worth while...
...other there is technocracy, in which man becomes a tiny pin in a gigantic mechanism. How can man be preserved? The answer seems so fragile, so hypothetical, that people understandably mock it. It is simply that we need an act of faith in man-faith in his profound worth and in the divine spark he contains." For faith is the bridge to the future. "This is Rome at the time of the barbarians. It is falling apart. But that doesn't mean the light won't shine eventually...
...glib spiel, Tellier, one of the biggest over-the-counter dealers in the U.S., since 1951 lured in 50,000 buyers of shares in Utah's Consolidated Uranium Mines Inc. He said that Consolidated had 85,000 acres of uranium land leases and had discovered $1,000,000 worth of uranium ore on only three of these acres. His salesmen grandly put Consolidated's net worth at $85 million, said the company's gross would jump 10% yearly and the stock would sell at up to $20 a share in a few years...
Consolidated Uranium itself had no part in the deal, and President Edward G. Frawley repeatedly protested to Tellier about the "exaggerated statements" in sales literature. Actually, Consolidated does not even own its biggest ore fields, and may lose them when its contracts expire in 1960. At most, its net worth is $1,000,000. Current value of the stock: about...
...power to obtain advantages over competitors." The committee also hinted that the Government should end G.M.'s 80% domination of the bus market, limit its expansion into such fields as diesels and earthmovers. It also suggested that G.M.'s profits are so high ("31% of its net worth" after taxes last year) that it could cut car prices. The committee overlooked the vast implications of that bit of advice: price cuts by G.M. would force price cuts by all automakers, almost certainly put the hard-pressed independents out of business and leave G.M. with an even bigger share...