Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Democratic Party leaders avoided Progressive Taylor like poison, asked voters to do the same. In the 1950 primary, Taylor was beaten by 948 votes by D. Worth Clark. But this year a third candidate entered the race and took some anti-Taylor votes away from Glen's chief opponent, Claude Burtenshaw, a Mormon professor from Ricks College. Last week the primary was held, and Taylor won by about 2,500 votes. Said Burtenshaw: "It looks like the left wing has taken over the party...
...Work for Worth. All this, to Secretary McKay, is too much. "Once we make a crutch of the Government," he believes, "we are on our way to becoming political cripples." He wants-at the right time and on the right terms-independence for the Indians, statehood for Alaska and Hawaii, private initiative on electric power and more private ownership of public lands...
McKay's definition: "Conservation means wise use . . . Natural resources are not worth a thing unless you put work into them...
Even before the name of the magazine was announced last month, SPORTS ILLUSTRATED received 250,000 subscription orders, completely sold out the advertising space in its first 144-page issue. It now has orders from more than 200 companies for $1.3 million worth of ads. Says Publisher H.H.S. Phillips Jr., former advertising director of TIME: "When we were working out the idea of a weekly sports magazine, there was a good deal of doubt felt in all quarters. There's not much doubt left now. We're off to one of the fastest starts in the history...
...battered old suggestion box has blossomed into one of U.S. industry's best sources of production-boosting ideas and one of its biggest money-savers. Last year some 4,000 companies (with organized suggestion programs) got more than two million ideas from employees, found 20% of them worth adopting and paid out something like $15 million in awards. For U.S. business the tangible savings added up to at least $300 million; no one can count the intangible rewards in higher morale, better workmanship and closer cooperation between boss and worker...