Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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POWER. Expand electric-power capacity from the present 3,000,000 kilowatts to 5,000,000 by 1960. This is the heart of the program, and will require some $300 million worth of imported equipment...
...chemical industry scheduled $1.6 billion worth of new plants in '56 and '57, according to a Manufacturing Chemists Association survey...
SMALL INVESTORS, 58,000 of whom invested in the New York Stock Exchange's Monthly Investment Plan, are doing well. Of the 50 most popular stocks bought since the plan was started two years ago (current total: 737,000 shares worth $28.7 million), eight increased more than 100% in value, while 16 others jumped between 50% and 100%. Top favorites: General Electric, RCA, General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey...
...Prisoner is psychological torture but well worth seeing; because Alec Guinness portrays this crucifixion of modern man. One of the outstanding films of the year, at the Exeter...
...uses a radioisotope gauge to check cigarette quality, and at least 350 companies use radioisotopes to look for flaws in welded joints and metal castings. By investing $1,000,000 yearly in radioisotopes, U.S. industry is saving $100 million yearly in production costs. Production managers have discovered that $100 worth of radioactive cobalt-60 will do the work of $20,000 worth of radium. By 1980 atomic radiation may also provide 10% of U.S. industry's "process heat," e.g., to refine ore into metal, make glass, crack...