Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company in New Delhi asked if he could come to study M.I.T.'s operations because "I feel that even in an underdeveloped economy there would be room for an institution of this type." One North Carolina man went to Boston, called on Robinson, said he owned $270,000 worth of stock in a Southern paper company, asked if he should sell and invest in M.I.T. shares. Robinson & Co. cautiously made no sales pitch, but advised the man to sell his stock. Next day the stock plunged five points...
...fall before making any announcement. But Kennedy's message was plain and Di Salle got it: if Mike Di Salle runs in the primary, either he must pledge himself to Kennedy or Kennedy will run against him. Said Di Salle, when he discovered that there was little else worth saying: "All right, boys. Let's go downstairs. The spaghetti's gettin' cold...
...grade Saar coal at cost over the next two decades. The Moselle River is being dredged so that Lorraine steel exports, floating to sea on the Moselle and the Rhine, can compete more advantageously with German steel. And the French reserved the right to export more than $260 million worth of goods duty-free into the Saar each year...
...where they are suitably scaled in size and gloom to the second floor gallery arcade. In all, though, I'm afraid that I'll just have to fall back on local pundit-philosopher S. Marshall Cohen's Confucius Say about the Harvard museum situation: "One in the Fogg is worth two in the Busch."PICASSO: La Femme au Chignon...
...billion) and Chicago's Material Service Corp. (1958 sales: $114.4 million), which will become an autonomous division of General Dynamics. Deal calls for stock of Material Service (building materials, concrete, coal), almost all held by Chairman Henry Crown and his family, to be exchanged for approximately $125 million worth of General Dynamics stock...