Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suspect that Israel-in the 20th year since the start of Hitler's slaughter of the Jewish people-would send a stream of weapons to rearm the German army," cried a Tel Aviv newspaper. Israel had contracted to sell 250,000 anti-tank grenade launchers worth $3,300,000 to West Germany's Bundeswehr. Even coalition parties in the government demanded cancellation of the contract, and Premier David Ben-Gurion faced a no-confidence vote in parliament. Threatening to resign if he did not get his way, Ben-Gurion defended the deal in this fashion: "I distinguish between...
...nucleus, sometimes a shark's tooth. They are mostly iron and manganese oxides, but they often contain considerable amounts of copper, nickel and cobalt. "The amounts are absolutely staggering," says Dr. Henry Menard of Scripps. One 10-million-sq.-mi. area in the Pacific, he estimates, has nodules worth hundreds of thousands of dollars per square mile...
...cost almost as much again to promote and distribute. If Sam's past performance (The Best Years of Our Lives, Guys and Dolls) is anything to go by, he will probably get his money back. But the customers will scarcely get their money's worth...
Across the land, summer stock plunged hopefully toward a bull market, with its youngest, sprightliest offshoot clearly leading the way-musicals under canvas. By season's end, almost 5,000,000 Americans will have bought $12 million worth of tickets to the nation's 29 tent theaters. Few of the big-top producers will do better than a sometime carnival fire-eater named St. John (rhymes with Injun) Terrell, 42, who celebrates Christmas by donning colonial garb and boating the Delaware in memory of George Washington's 1776 Trenton victory. A mere Mike Toddler among impresarios when...
...smothered on plastic bags misused as crib mattress covers), cleaners across the country report that consumers overwhelmingly prefer plastic to paper for covering shirts and suits. After the 27 members of the Knoxville, Tenn. Laundry and Dry Cleaners Association agreed publicly to discontinue plastic bags and shelve $100,000 worth of bag-processing equipment, they found that customers (by a 50-to-1 margin) demanded the bags...