Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, the first prize of $1,000 worth of goods or services advertised in TIME went to Bernard M. Lewy of New York, who had listed the first five of the seven letters correctly; In sweltering Manhattan, he began to think in terms of air conditioning for his office and home. One of the three contestants awarded the second prize of $500 worth of goods or services was Frank Keefe, also of New York, who had his wife, son and daughter checking a list of 737 TIME advertisers...
Twenty third-place winners busily chose the $100 worth of golf clubs, cameras, electric fans or half a dozen other items. Jay Y. Tipton of Salt Lake City wrote: "It isn't easy to choose . . . I've been toying with the idea of asking for $100 worth of Oldsmobiles, or some of I. W. Harper's liquid assets; there are so many products and services in TIME'S advertising pages." In Atlanta, Jack F. Glenn waited for his wife to come back to town...
...wrote: "In that she is an ardent reader of TIME, I feel sure that she is going to want to have a part in selecting the $100 worth of prize." In Omaha, George M. McCulloch probably expressed the feelings of winners and losers alike after playing what turned out to be promotion's rough 5,000-to-1 shot. He wrote: "Brother...
...President E. H. Little (now board chairman and chief executive officer), later headed OPA's chemical and drug unit in Washington, became a Colgate vice president in 1945, and in 1953 first president of the newly organized Colgate-Palmolive International, which in 1954 sold $162,500,000 worth of goods abroad. New International president is Ralph A. Hart, who has been its vice president in charge of European sales and advertising...
...mistress and a messy job it was. The family explanation that Cenci had fallen to his death through a rickety balcony was too easily disproved, and even Pope Clement VIII refused to temper justice with mercy. Beatrice, Lucrezia and Giacomo all confessed, though modern justice might question the worth of confessions extracted by torture on the rack...