Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World War II found Banker Dodge renegotiating Army Air Forces contracts in the Midwest. Soon he was heading the Pentagon's topmost War Contracts Board, which in four years handled $190 billion worth of business, recovered $11 billion for the taxpayers. From the Pentagon, Dodge was taken by General Lucius Clay to Germany as a financial expert. To get war-torn Germany off its cigarette economy, Dodge proposed a 90% currency reduction (one mark for ten), coupled with capital levies on real property to even out the burden of defeat. "Imagine a Detroit banker advocating a capital levy," gulped...
Gopher coach Mariucci, whose teams have won two straight Western Intercollegiate Hockey League titles solely with American personel, said, "We at Minnesita don't have any Canadians, but our doors are open. One good Canadian player is worth ten American coaches...
CRUDE-RUBBER STOCKPILING should be ended, say rubber manufacturers. B.F. Goodrich Chairman John L. Collyer says that the Government stockpile now has 1,200,000 long tons worth an estimated $825 million−enough to last six to eight years in an emergency...
...wife's, so it's got to have the best liver-about $25 worth a month." If the advance is not enough, there is the $2-limit poker session that Algren convenes twice a week in the basement of a North Michigan Avenue mansion. Algren figures that he has made $1,000 at poker this year-enough, in a pinch, to keep the novel going...
Says James T. Farrell: "The question is not whether 200 writers are making a living but whether there are 200 writers in America who have something to say worth buying...