Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...required a heavy investment in money and in Eastland's time. The plantation's equipment includes 27 tractors, one caterpillar, 25 cotton trailers, 15 four-row plowing units and a vast assortment of plows, combines, trucks, balers, pickers, etc. Eastland's plantation with its equipment is worth more than a million dollars and grosses about half a million a year in sales. Working the 4,500 acres directly under the plantation manager-520 acres are worked by tenant farmers-are 84 sharecroppers (mostly Negro) and, in this season, about 30 Negro day hands. The material welfare...
...United States exported about $15 billion worth of goods, of which about one-third went to Western Europe. In comparison, American exports to all Red-controlled countries totalled only about four million, of which approximately $200,000 went to the U.S.S.R. United States exports in 1954 to the Soviet bloc represent a drop of about ninety-nine and a half percent from the 1947 level. Korea accelerated the fall. The materials which formed U.S. exports to Russia in 1954 were mainly such agricultural produce as fats and oils, hides, and cigarettes. In the same year, American imports from the Soviet...
...Ancient History, Sherlock Holmes, Food & Cooking, Shakespeare, Spelling, Boxing & Jazz. They had made up their minds to quit as soon as they hit $16,000, but when they found that the $32,000 question would be on English literature-their specialty-they decided "we couldn't have 2? worth of self-respect...
...trick is to remember that while the value of a number in Arabic numerals depends on its position (e.g., 2 in 126 is worth 20), an X, V, L or C is still ten, five, 50 or 100 no matter where it appears. Thus, in finding the answer to "What is XXVIII multiplied by XII?", a Roman might have multiplied from left to right the top number by each numeral in the bottom number. Taking X (10) times XXVIII, he would get 20X5, ten Vs and 30 Is, which would become CCLXXX. After adding XXVIII and XXVIII to this...
Since 1918, when the Soviets repudiated $75 million worth of czarist gold bonds sold to Americans, the Romanov two-headed eagles have theoretically been worthless. Yet hope springs eternal, and several thousand bonds are annually traded on the American Stock Exchange, where they move up and down according to the temperature of U.S.-Soviet relations. The Nazi-Soviet pact in 1939 sent the $1,000 bonds to $1.86, their bottom; the Yalta honeymoon with the U.S. (1945) raised them to a peak $220. They dropped to $20 in the 1950 cold war, rose to $125 on the strength of last...