Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accelerating its program to develop an atomic-powered plane, announced "greater strides during the first six months of 1955 than in any earlier half-year . . . with the promise of nuclear-powered flight considerably brightened." A-plane reactor work is under way at Oak Ridge, Tenn., Evendale, Ohio and Fort Worth, Texas; new facilities will soon be built at Middletown, Conn. "Construction of the aircraft nuclear propulsion test area 'for testing aircraft reactors ... is nearing completion...
Teamster Beck, who built the rambling brick residence on Seattle's exclusive Shore Drive some five years ago, insisted that the union was getting its money's worth. The house has three bedrooms and three baths on one floor, two two-car garages, a separate four-room apartment, a movie room with seats for 50 and two theater-sized projectors, a bathhouse, a heated tile swimming pool covering 1,000 square feet, and an ornamental stream with artificial rock waterfall, illuminated at night. Dave Beck feels that it is just the kind of place a labor leader should...
...waxing fat at the expense of the veterans and the taxpayers, with an ingenious racket. The racketeers 1) got options on land at market prices, 2) duped veterans into signing the necessary papers, 3) with the aid of crooked officials, got the land appraised at several times its actual worth, 4) put on pressure to get state loans on it, in the names of the bamboozled veterans, and 5) pocketed the profits made in the jacked-up prices for the land...
...their black cloaks tethered donkeys and camels outside the polling stations, stood patienlly alongside their Jewish neighbors, waiting their turn. Brooklyn's Grand Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum, of the Congregation Yetv Lev, in an effort to persuade Orthodox Jews not to take part in secular elections, was offering $15 worth of scrip, good for luxury foodstuffs, if they would stay away from the polls. But in Jerusalem's Orthodox quarter of Mea Shearim, bearded and ringleted men with memories of East European ghettos were praying for wisdom before making their choice...
...Judging American Sunday schools and finding them wanting, Dr. F. Eppling Reinartz, secretary of the United Lutheran Church in America, told the International Sunday School Convention in Cleveland that Sunday schools 1) do not "typically appraise the worth of a person" by Christian values, 2) foster a "shallow and confused" theology, 3) "do not reckon with . . . social resistance to righteousness...