Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ernest Loring ("Red") Nichols (Actor Kaye), a hot cornet and well-known bandleader of the late '20s, whose "Five Pennies" -Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, Miff Mole, Jack Teagarden. Peewee Russell, Fud Livingston and Wingy Manone all worked for him at various times-were later worth their weight in greenbacks. In real life, Red missed the big money in the '30s and made a comeback in 1944. His film biography is heavy with heroics and sentimentality, but Satchmo is almost worth the price of admission. At 59, he still grins, gravels, and blasts away...
...ahead of schedule. Americans by then will be producing, earning, spending and investing at the rate of $500 billion yearly, raising the U.S. to the level of a half-trillion-dollar economy. For each of the nation's 45 million families, the breakthrough will represent some $11,000 worth of goods and services produced by U.S. factories, farms, mines, government and service industries. The total will be many billions greater than the combined gross national products of the Soviet Union, Great Britain, West Germany and France...
...hilly Santa Teresa district, a chauffeured Oldsmobile last week pulled up to a modern apartment building. As a pudgy, genial-looking man stepped out, English-speaking Brazilian Detective Sadoc Reis called out: "Hi, Lowell." "Fine," replied Lowell McAfee Birrell, 52, wanted in Manhattan on charges that he stole stock worth $14 million from two U.S. companies (TIME. July...
...Central Jail, Birrell at first refused to answer questions. Having boned up thoroughly on Birrell's intricate financial machinations, Rio police were interested in his wheeler-dealing around Rio, where he tried to promote stock in a plastic company and import seven cars as personal baggage (including Cadillacs worth $14,000 each in Rio). As the police frisked Birrell, they found a fresh charge in his left coat pocket: a Canadian passport he had used for false entry into Brazil only a week before...
...Chinese port recently, U.S.-trained Chinese inspectors swarmed over it, carefully grading each" bale. The Chinese are tough and unbending in trade negotiations, often cancel contracts for no obvious reason. Said a Frenchman who packed his bags and returned home from Red China without a franc's worth of trade: "The atmosphere is decidedly bad for doing business...