Word: worth
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American workers and farmers know the highest standard of living in the world and this, by itself, illustrates the worth of a system of free enterprise and an enlightened and dynamic capitalism. There is no doubt that if the move ments of men were free, in no time American consulates would be besieged by workers the world over. Supposing that the Soviet government would open its frontiers to immigrants, how many would be ready to take their passports to Moscow? There you have an irrefutable testimony to the success of American democracy...
Some $10 million of the fund will be used to finance four-year National Merit Scholarships, which will be awarded ($1,000,000 worth a year) on the basis of annual nationwide searches for bright students who cannot afford college. The nation's approximately 25,000 secondary schools are already being invited to nominate candidates for the first scholarships, to be awarded before...
...capabilities of their planes, must constantly make expensive compromises to take care of the pilot. Until Medico Stapp came along with his cool scientist's insistence on using himself as guinea pig, fighter-planes were built to stand an expected stress of nine gs. It hardly seemed worth while to make them stronger. The human body, the engineers insisted (and most doctors believed), could not take greater physical strain. Not the machine but man himself appeared to be limiting man's conquest of the jet age. However the engineers tried, they could not evade, as Stapp puts...
...with a domestic competitor, Chadbourn Hosiery Mills, Inc., and organized Patentex, Inc., to handle licensing. By last week, Patentex had taken over 51 domestic and 47 foreign licenses. The industry was ready to produce-and to promote. Led by Nylon Manufacturer du Pont, more than a million dollars worth of advertising has been scheduled for the fall to create a bigger demand for stretch yarn and its many new products...
...interest, or turn it in, after Dec. 13, with $48 in cash, for one share of common stock. This makes it possible for the debenture holder to buy a share of stock at $148, or $31 less than the current selling price. Thus a right was worth about $3.20 at last week's price of A.T. & T. stock...