Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegates listened to a mournful recitation of China's economic woes by Chief Planner Li Fu-chun. Nearly three years after the announcement of his Five Year Plan, Li confessed that his grandiose project to remake China in the image of Soviet Russia by 1957 was hardly worth the paper it was written...
...across country in eight stainless-steel truck trailers. Their cargo: a 200-by-360-ft. tent that Roberts claims is the largest evangelistic tent in the world, an aluminum preaching platform that can hold 60 people, a 60,000-watt lighting and public-address system and sundry other equipment worth...
...walked 50 miles leading a cow. Then a few students began to bring homemade quilts, and these, President William Frost discovered, could be sold. From quilts, the students went on to furniture, gradually built up Berea's famed Student Industries which now do some $400,000 worth of business a year...
...beer, Gussie Busch follows in the well-marked footsteps of his beer-baron ancestors. The brewery is still controlled by the founding families. Together with St. Louis' Anheuser family, the Busch clan owns 65% of Anheuser-Busch's 4,816,218 outstanding shares; Gussie himself owns 22%, worth some $20 million, and is paid a salary of $150,000 a year. Eberhard Anheuser, the 74-year-old grandson of one of the founders, is chairman of the board, but Gussie, grandson of the other founder, is the man in command. Says he: "The thing I want...
Today. Busch presides over an industrial giant with a net worth that has grown to nearly $400 million, sales of $216 million, and profits topping $12 million in 1954. At full capacity, his three breweries across the U.S. can produce 8,990,000 bbls. of beer annually, more than any other brewer. How 1955 will turn out is anyone's guess. For the first three months Schlitz held a slight lead, but now, with Budweiser sales soaring, Busch flatly predicts that his beer will win going away...