Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...remote Paragua River, he found an egg-size black stone "that shone like a diamond." Agustín thankfully put it in his pocket and paddled away. But joy soon changed to anxiety. For some of the miners who saw the stone said it was a rare gem worth $600,000 or more, but others scoffed that it was only an industrial diamond worth a bare $4,000. Afraid to test his luck, Agustín kept his big stone for two agonizing months. Word of the find spread. Newspapers debated names for a gem destined to rank with...
...week both Manville and Spreckels, the veterans of a total of 15 marriages, 13 divorces, two separations, were entangled with the law and women as usual. In Manhattan, Playboy Manville, haled into court by wife No. 9, Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, and asked to prove that he is not worth at least $10 million, seemed on the verge of mouthing a pauper's oath. The exact figure before he had lunch during the court's noon recess, insisted Tommy, is a modest $2,054,922.23. To show the straits he is in, Manville lugged in a suitcase full...
Just four years ago, released from an American military prison, Alfried Krupp got back some 30 seized enterprises worth $90 million (about one-fourth of what Krupp once controlled), and was told he could produce only products of peace, e.g., locomotives, tractors, etc. Specifically barred from coal mining and steelmaking, Krupp decided to diversify, went to work to regain his old world markets and set up a new branch (Krupp Technik) to concentrate on industrial planning and construction abroad. The strategy succeeded. Among Krupp's current booming projects...
...also tightening up on loans. In January FHA insured $931 million worth of new home construction, nearly double the amount of a year ago. But in the past few weeks, FHA has started to dampen the boom. In Dallas last week, FHA announced that it would make no further firm commitments on purely speculative housing, i.e., with no buyer signed up. In 17 other areas, e.g., Fort Dix, N.J., Portsmouth, Ohio, Paducah, Ky., primarily where defense-stimulated expansion has mushroomed building too rapidly, FHA has also rationed the number of loans it will insure, sometimes cutting builders' applications...