Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Mexican government has had a change of heart toward utilities, some of the results are already in. Mexican Light, given a 21% rate rise and promised another increase later, paid its first common-stock dividends in 41 years. Last week it confidently put $2,000,000 worth of securities on the market; the company expects eventually to attract enough private capital-together with public loans and earnings-to finance a $200 million, ten-year expansion plan. American & Foreign Power, promised a rate increase soon, plans a $40 million, five-year building program, using public and private capital...
...publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Amon G. (for Giles) Carter, devout Texan, found it easy to explain his paper's success. "We get out a newspaper," he said, "that fits our city." Carter's formula, while it did not make the Star-Telegram a famous daily, made it a good one. But his rare combination of showmanship, artful buffoonery and open-handed generosity virtually made Cow-Town Fort Worth a city. Dressed in his ten-gallon hat and cream-colored polo coat, Amon Carter sang Fort Worth's praise all over the world, while passing...
...West Begins. Even in Texas, where local pride and hospitality are an article of common faith, no one could match Carter's. Once, inviting a group of out-of-towners to visit Fort Worth, Carter wired with typical hospitality: "Carry only what money you need before you get to Texas. You will not be able to spend a dime in the state...
Carter's devotion to the Star-Telegram and its city was matched only by his scorn for Dallas, 30 miles away. Nothing pleased him more than his slogan for Fort Worth ("Where the West Begins"), especially when he could add that Dallas was really for effete Easterners. Carter always refused to buy anything in Dallas, including food; on his rare visits to Dallas he proudly carried a box lunch. To make Fort Worth an aviation center, he became the largest single stockholder in American Airlines, moved its headquarters from Dallas to Fort Worth. The name...
...Fort Worth's new $12 million airport: Amon Carter Field. Dallas took Carter's gibes in good humor, thought (as did Amon Carter) that the competition was good for both cities. Said the Dallas Morning News: "Carter punched Dallas like cowboys are wont to do slow steers in a shipping chute...