Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Issued an executive order that would allow the sale abroad, for local currencies, of some $700 million worth of surplus farm commodities...
...light of Our Lord's prayer that we may be sanctified in the truth and that we may all be one? ... Great masses of people in many parts of the world are hungry for bread, and are compelled to live in conditions which mock their human worth. Does your church speak and act against such injustice? . . . Does your congregation live for itself, or for the world around it and beyond it? ... Do you forgive one another as Christ forgave you? Is your congregation a true family of God where every man can find a home?" The message ended...
...plants are new; the others are completely modernized. One-fourth of Ford's $1.5 billion postwar profits have been paid out in dividends. For one single year (1950) the Ford Foundation received a dividend check of $86.6 million, or $28 a share. At the end of 1953, net worth of the company had risen to an all-time high of some $1.4 billion, and profits last year were $175 million. For the first half of 1954 the Ford car was in first place in sales-1.1% ahead of Chewy...
...choppy sound, purse seiners worked all night hauling in blue-backed sockeye salmon. One boat brought in $21,000 worth, then headed out again. Wharves and packing plants were soon piled high with sockeye, whose firm red meat makes it a fine canning fish. In Bellingham, Wash. housewives were drafted to help in the crowded canneries; in Anacortes children were excused from school to help. In two weeks U.S. and Canadian fishermen hauled out 7,500,000 fish worth $2 each, expected to land another 2,500,000, v. last year's total catch...
...castle as an anniversary surprise for his wife-they haven't been getting along, and he thinks that, well, maybe what they both need is a castle. The difficulty is, shipping is scarce in the Hebrides, and nobody can be found to cart the last ?4,000 worth of plumbing to the island in time for the great day. Nobody, that is, but Captain MacTaggert (Alex Mackenzie) of the puffer Maggie...