Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sept. 30, the U.S. was holding history's greatest hoard of unsold food and fibers: $6.4 billion worth, including 377 million Ibs. of butter, 550 million Ibs. of cottonseed oil, 743 million bushels of wheat, 2,000,000 Ibs. of tobacco...
...supporters to give them the new line. He mildly praised Mendès' plan for rearming Germany ("infinitely better" than EDC) but thought German rearmament would be difficult to put into effect. "Not that the men in office lack patriotism and personal capability," he said; "the ardor, the worth and vigor of the present Premier are there as proof." De Gaulle insisted that before finally rearming Germany, France should lead negotiations for "a modus vivendi" with Russia. The week's dramas had demonstrated one thing: as of now the French Assembly wants Mend...
...Even spending $17.1 billion on education will hardly put a strain on the nation's pocketbook; by 1965 the U.S. is expected to produce $525 billion worth of goods and services (1953 figure: $365 billion...
...sense, Hemingway perhaps never fully faced up to the concept of soul in his writing. Religion is a subject he refuses to discuss at all. He is equally ill at ease in the world of the ruminative intellectual. But he recognizes that in that world there is much worth knowing. In the bright sun, Hemingway recalls the shut-in figure of Marcel Proust. "Because a man sees the world in a different way and sees more diverse parts of the world does not make him the equal of a man like Marcel Proust," says Hemingway humbly. "Proust knew deeper...
...pour millions more into the company in the early '205, and run it, after G.M. Founder William C. Durant's enormous stock-market losses threatened to ruin him and G.M. alike. At the time, the Du Pont total investment was some $80 million; its holdings are now worth $1.8 billion...