Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rigid farm supports. "I understand that we now have $7 billion worth of surplus products in the storage bins of the country ... In my judgment, the rigid farm supports contributed toward the building up of that surplus. I do not feel that rigid farm supports are the answer to the problem. I do think that the soil bank which they are now advocating is one element in reaching a solution...
...Winning Marble. In Sydney a businessman who gave away $92 worth of lottery tickets as Christmas gifts discovered that one of the tickets had won $27,000. Another $13,500 prizewinner, arrested for drunkenness after celebrating his win, promptly bailed out all his fellow tosspots in the city jail, explaining: "They're a very nice crowd." Such incidents are routine for lottery-covering newsmen, but last week all Australia waited breathless while the big Tasmanian barrel roared to a stop and English Cricket Star Alec Bedser reached for the marble that would pay someone more than half a million...
...partners resold the lot at Keeneland, Ky. for a 125% profit. With Segula, dam of Nashua, bringing a record auction price for a U.S. broodmare ($126,000), Kentucky Horsewoman Woolwine and her friends collected a total of $924,100. Nashua's sire, Nasrullah, also proved that he was worth a pretty penny. A syndicate headed by Kentucky's Thoroughbred Breeder A. B. ("Bull") Hancock paid the Belair Stud estate $251,100 for a slim one-seventh share of the great stallion's services, a price that estimates Nasrullah's total value...
...public resources often resort to doctoring their documents and bribing officials to gain their loot. Astonishment should spring, rather, from the discovery that mining assays should have any bearing on timbering rights at all. The linkage of timbering and mineral rights dates to the nineteenth century, when lumber was worth little, yet was essential for construction of mine shafts. Today the timber above ground is often more valuable that the minerals beneath, so a mining company may sell lumber at great prices and never dig a shaft...
Despite the perils of a journey through the slushy environs of the Park Street MTA station, this escape to the Dark Continent is fully worth your while. For my money, The African Lion is the best value in town...