Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hardly to be supposed that any reader, once he has laid aside TIME'S Books section will feel that anything at all is worth buying . . . and yet, we survive - without greeting cards, without gadgets, without records: just books. Furthermore, we also make money and, curiously enough, we like to read and, even more curiously, so do our customers. Like the lady in a less noble profession, I guess we're just lucky...
...Offered to give (since the law does not prohibit giving) Communist Albania $850,000 worth of wheat flour, corn, dried beans and vegetable oil to see the population (1,246,000) through the annual late-winter-early-spring food crisis. The offer was promptly denounced in Moscow as a hypocritical propaganda maneuver, if Received, from Colorado's new Democratic Governor (and former U.S. Senator) Edwin C. Johnson, Colorado's 1955 nonresident fishing license...
...Bulls & a Bank Roll. While the final vote was overwhelming (223-113 in the House, a shouted voice vote in the Senate), the Congressmen acted only after hearing some caustic words about their own worth. The sharpest comments came from North Dakota's sharp old (76) Republican Representative Usher L. (for Loyd) Burdick, a lawyer, rancher, collector of rare books and a Congressman for 16 years.' In the first place, said Burdick, some of his colleagues were not being honest when they called their present salary $12,500 a year, and failed to mention their...
...Stop chiefly chronicles a raw, rambunctious young cowboy's courtship-which is virtually a kidnaping-of a soiled young Kansas City nightclub singer. Very slowly the clodhopper (Albert Salmi) discovers that an ounce of tenderness is worth a pound of bluster, while the audience simultaneously discovers that it is the bluster of a sexual tenderfoot. And the girl discovers that, though courted as though she were a punching bag, she is for once being thought of as though she were a lady...
Antiquarian. In Louisville, Used-Car Dealer James McEwen reported that a thief broke into his office, took the ignition keys to 14 automobiles, drove off with "the worst car on the lot-a 1942 model worth...