Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sincere appreciation for your Feb. 14 article on the intercollegiate livestock-judging contest at Fort Worth. Those of us connected with this type of educational training for our young college men and women feel that the story will aid in a very material way in getting this type of agricultural training out to the general public. It will add prestige to the livestock-judging contest work...
Customer Follow-Up. In Fort Worth, Mrs. Marian Cooper, 22, reported that two years after she had interrupted the sales talk of an unidentified book salesman and driven him away by hitting him on the head with a rolling pin, he had returned, announced: "Well, I've come back," hit Mrs. Cooper on the head with the same rolling...
...Defense and State Departments, along with the Foreign Operations Administration and other agencies, have their own ideas. Last year, for instance, Congress authorized the Administration to sell $700 million worth of surplus commodities abroad for nonconvertible currencies over a three-year period. The Agriculture Department, buried to the eyes in its surpluses, wanted to use up all the authority in the first year, then go back to Congress for more authority; the State Department, however, wanted the program carried out in equal annual installments, to lessen the effect on world markets. President Eisenhower finally stepped in with a compromise solution...
...year-old Landon Butler's fortune was gone. A petition for involuntary bankruptcy was filed against him, and two grain firms sued him for millions. Charged Continental Grain Co., of Chicago and New York, and Manhattan's Leval & Co., Inc.: Butler had sold them $4,400,000 worth of nonexistent soybeans. Charged the U.S. Department of Agriculture: by fraudulent methods, Butler had tried to corner the soybean market...
...Carried Himself Well." To get cash, according to the Continental Grain Co. suit, Butler called Continental one day and offered to sell $3,100,000 worth of soybeans. Continental, an old Butler customer, agreed, and in exchange for its check it got a bunch of warehouse receipts for the beans, normal procedure in the soybean market. Leval made a similar deal for $1,300,000 worth of beans. But when a routine warehouse check was made, the companies charge, no soybeans were to be found...