Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate by voice vote gave the Tennessee Valley Authority permission to issue and sell up to $750 million worth of bonds to help finance its power system. The Administration had requested authority for the Budget Bureau to approve the sales, but Congress reserved that authority for itself. It also put a five-mile limit on further TVA territorial expansion...
...medical school Njoroge got the idea for his African hospital, sold it to Medico, a division of the International Rescue Committee, which persuaded U.S. drug manufacturers to donate $100,000 worth of medicines, other U.S. manufacturers to supply $40,000 worth of equipment and surgical instruments. A Stanford classmate agreed to go as resident physician-at $200 a month. By mail, Njoroge organized a committee in Kenya that persuaded tribesmen to donate land, materials and labor for the hospital. The hospital will be built in the village of Chania, 30 miles northeast of Nairobi, will be free for Africans, whose...
...Shakespeare was a pretty imaginative fellow. And director Berghof is one of the most acutely imaginative men in the business (as any one of his recent productions will testify). Put the two men together, and the result was bound to be unusual and worth careful examination...
...free to campaign on their own. Last week, as the days drew nearer to the November elections, two left-wing parties in Premier David Ben-Gurion's four-party coalition found a really emotion-charged issue to fight about: Israel's deal to sell $3,300,000 worth of grenade launchers to West Germany (TIME, July 6). This is a lively subject in a nation that remembers Nazi concentration camps and frowns on playing Wagner on the radio...
...Lofts. Highway 128 was built to be just a Boston bypass. But in the eight years since it opened, the roadway has lured 17 industrial parks and $137 million worth of new buildings. Into them have moved 227 companies employing 28,000 people...