Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Inside his train lay 100 packing cases that symbolized Russia's new "policy of leniency" towards Iran: they contained eleven tons of gold ingots worth $12 million...
...government agency set up in 1950 to push a twelve-year, $2 billion southern revival program. Hampered by petty politics, minor graft and insufficient funds ($180 million yearly), the Cassa has moved slowly for the size of the job, but results are already apparent. It has stimulated $320-million worth of private investment in the region. It has built 18,000 new farm houses, 1,800 miles of road, and increased electrical consumption by 43% It has created new employment equivalent to about 200,000 full-time jobs, added 2% to Italy's national income and given land...
...potential market for geriatric foods is well worth the risk Heinz is taking. By 1960, there will be 23 million people over 60 in the U.S. While a baby eats baby food for only about two years, an oldster could be a consumer of the new product for 15 years or more...
...worthless check from Playboy Robert Schlesinger (TIME, Feb. 21), whose mother is Countess Mona Bismarck, remarried widow of Utilities Tycoon Harrison Williams, and whose father is Henry J. Schlesinger, retired Milwaukee industrialist. Said Van Cleef & Arpels : Schlesinger had given Cinemactress Linda Christian, estranged wife of Cinemactor Tyrone Power, jewels worth $132,500, made partial payment with a $100,000 check that bounced. Unable to collect from Schlesinger, Van Cleef slapped a suit on Linda in an effort to get back the jewels...
...scrub forests and 'gator-filled streams of northern Florida's wild St. Johns River country that the novelist described almost two decades ago in The Yearling. A charmingly illustrated idyl, with just the right mixture of fish story and black-water magic, The Secret River is well worth exploring if it leads youngsters-and those who read to them too-back to The Yearling, still a modern classic that can put TV picture tubes in the dark...