Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everybody was happy. When the time came last week to lower France's tricolor, sullen French officials did it surreptitiously, to foil eager Indian photographers. Pondicherry had been widely known as a "goodtime town" and a smuggler's paradise (less than 1% of the millions of dollars worth of watches, silks and other luxury goods imported into Pondicherry went to its local citizens). Last week elderly, solemn Indian officials moved into choice hotel rooms previously used as brothels. One disgruntled hotelman pointed to a big stack of empty whisky bottles beside his back veranda and sighed: "That...
...galloping inflation. Dean thought the solution was to let the hwan find its own level (i.e., free-market dollar value), then siphon away the excess hwan currency that was drowning the country. Said Syngman Rhee: "Nonsense. The best way to fight inflation is to say that the hwan is worth 180 to the dollar and then keep it there." At that time the hwan was worth less than that and fast losing ground...
Last week, nearly ten years after the Japanese armies retreated from a ravaged Burma, the Foreign Ministers of the two nations concluded final peace terms, and toasted the agreement in champagne. As reparation for the wartime occupation, Japan promised to send Burma $20 million-a-year worth of machinery and goods for the next ten years, along with technicians, and to invest another $5,000,000 annually in such joint enterprises as power projects and factories. Thus out of the peace Japan stands to get a friendly foothold in the Burma market...
Except for the elections (see above), last week was most notable for three returning shows and an off-screen squabble. Du Mont's second-highest rated program, Life Is Worth Living (the first: professional football), again featured Bishop Fulton J. Sheen, resplendent in his ecclesiastical robes and as pontific in gesture and incisive in speech as before. There were some additions: 1) a new set, giving the appearance of a paneled, tile-floored room, 2) a new statue of the Virgin Mary that was conceived and commissioned by the bishop and introduced as "Our Lady of Television...
...somebody shouted. The speaker displayed a Miss Mary Collins, the ticket seller, and added, "Wouldn't it be worth it to stand if you couldn't get a seat?" The audience affirmed in unison again...