Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...election day last week, the temperature in Cabazon reached 110°. But resting beside his 40-ft., indoor swimming pool, Tallent was cool to the point of indifference. "I don't care if I win this election or not," he drawled. "I've got $2,000,000 worth of property here; I've got a thousand house lots to sell; and if I don't win, I'm going to concentrate on getting them sold and making that fortune I'm after...
According to the Turkish police, the four sergeants among them had bought about $15,000 worth of lire at black-market rates, i.e., at 11 or 12 to the dollar instead of at the official 9 to the dollar. For this, Izmir's public prosecutor last week demanded up to 25 years for McCuistion and lesser prison sentences for the other three...
Militarily, the conflict in Laos was strictly small bore. Why, then, had Red China wheeled up such heavy political artillery? The minimum Communist ambition may be to frighten Phoui into accepting return of the international control commission and readmitting the Laotian Reds into his government. But this seemed hardly worth a fuss that might queer Khrushchev's trip to the U.S.-unless, as some British diplomats speculate, it was Mao's way of reminding Khrushchev that Red China does not want any thaw in U.S.-Russian relations. The U.S. State Department, however, implicitly accused Moscow of complicity...
...traveler who heeds the advice of the American Express Co. to carry no more than $50 in cash. A slim, 36-year-old Italian with a weakness for tall brunettes, fast Lancias, and all-night stands at the roulette tables, Grassi liked to have as much as $250,000 worth of francs in his little black briefcase when he took off for weekends at French casinos. The trouble was, Grassi invariably lost-and the cash belonged to the American Express...
YUGOSLAV BOND PAYMENTS on $25 million worth of dollar bonds, in default since 1939, will begin soon with $500,000 annual payments under "temporary arrangement." Yugoslavia seeks to restore its credit rating so it can borrow privately in U.S. money market...