Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high distinction of his Hong Kong neighbor General Wei Li-huang, who defected to the Communists last March. Nevertheless, as a onetime commander of the Nationalist 26th Army in Yunnan and leader of the long-drawn-out defense of Changteh against the Japanese in 1943, he was a soldier worth wooing to any cause. He had prospered outside Red China with his investments in Hong Kong real estate, in Macao fisheries and Chinese trading firms...
...Juscelino Kubitschek, 54, peppery ex-governor of inland Minas Gerais, candidate of the Social Democrats and the Vargas-created Labor Party. Worth many a vote to Kubitschek is his claim to be the political heir of Vargas, whose name is still magic among down-at-heel Brazilians. After first denouncing Kubitschek, Brazil's outlawed but vote-swinging Communist Party recently made an opportunistic switch and endorsed him. But he can hardly be called a pink, much less a Red. In fact, he fits into no ideological pigeonhole, but campaigns as a man of action who promises to build, build...
...reached the horse-trading stage with rival Planemakers Douglas and Boeing, are shuttling between the two firms dickering over prices and specifications on the Douglas DC-8 and Boeing 707. United President William A. Patterson has put spurs to both by stating that he will soon order 25 jets worth $125 million "from either Douglas or Boeing," depending on which has the better plane. Orders at stake: possibly 125 planes, worth $625 million...
...only $4.98 in the first three days, sales picked up when they started importing Dresden porcelain and Parisian jewelry. Then, with political upheavals in France, diamond prices tumbled 50% in Europe, and Tiffany's bought all it could, including Marie Antoinette's diamond belt and $100,000 worth of jewels owned by Hungary's Prince Esterh...
...Moore heirs, Hoving Corp.* bought for some $3,825,000 more than 68,000 of Tiffany's 132,451 shares outstanding. But President Moore, Executive Vice President William Tiffany Lusk (great-grandson of the founder) and the entire Tiffany staff will remain. Said Walter Hoving: "Tiffany management is worth as much as the company...