Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Right down the line in the production good things are cancelled out by bad. Hildegarde Neff, a Marlene Dietrich with a bigger frame and a smaller voice, was the only cast member who managed to make the script worth her while. But though there should be few complaints with Miss Neff, Don Ameche plays opposite her, as an American who turns her head and ideology. There are somewhere, I am sure, people who enjoy Mr. Ameche and his teeth. They will be gratified to see that he approaches a song with the same enthusiasm with which be extolled coffee...
...tied to a boom-or-bust economy began to bust. The result, as 1954 ended, was a feeling of firm confidence in the U.S. economy and in dynamic capitalism as an economic way of life. Secretary of the Treasury George Humphrey, a hard man with a dollar's worth of optimism, summed up this economic feeling in a financial man's superlative. Said he: "I'm a bull on the world...
...have had him take the high road toward war or the low road of appeasement. He stayed, instead, on the rutted, booby-trapped road in between, and he made some forward progress. If he has, indeed, captured the word peace for the U.S., his patience and caution were well worth the prize...
...father's side and still has relatives there. He chose Swiss banks to hold the plunder, reportedly $6,000,000, that came into his hands while he was President. And it was in Zurich that an Arbenz henchman last year negotiated the purchase of $10 million worth of Communist arms. If the President who almost delivered Guatemala to the Reds now wanted to visit Moscow headquarters to talk over the past and future, he could hardly find a more discreet door through the Iron Curtain than Switzerland. Last week, inevitably, Arbenz headed that way. In Mexico, where the former...
...year as an Air Force subcontractor, with profits of $2,668,210. Says Millionaire Moore, who owns 85,534 shares of stock: "Getting in on the ground floor of anything is the surest way to make big gains. You put in $25,000 and suddenly it's worth a million and a half...