Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...down to the "Baboon" and hauling away the cargo. To get the heaviest parts of the cargo ashore, Canipe buried huge steel plates deep in the beach, hooked cables to them and easily slid the unwieldy factory parts ashore, above the high-water mark. A 23-ton steel press, worth $45,000 alone, was the biggest problem. As it was being winched over the side of the Babun, the cable broke, and the press landed in the middle of Canipe's causeway. The bulldozers managed to pull it to dry land in three hours, just ahead of the tide...
...acts (including, on one program, Comic Leo De Lyon, who can whistle and hum two songs at once) and spends the rest of the all-too-brief half an hour in bland comedy. Example: the prizes for a contest run by the National Kumquat Growers' Association - $5,000 worth of sneakers (size 17E), six miles of dental floss, an all-expense, two-week vacation trip to Youngstown, Ohio, one brand-new screen door (together with 200 flies...
Conversation (Sun. 7:30 p.m., NBC Radio) is half an hour's worth of stimulating and sometimes brilliant talk by Book Critic-M. C. Clifton Fadiman and two or three guests, whose only guide is a topical springboard, e.g., "American Women," "Middle Age," "Basic Fears." The show started off as a local TV program last spring. NBC and Producer Louis Cowan pulled it off the air after eleven weeks, overhauled it, then gave it a splashless launching all over again on radio. From week to week such sophisticated raconteurs as Bennett Cerf, Marc Connelly, Abe Burrows, Steve Allen...
After 5½ hours, Paula's time came. The nurse reported to Dr. Martin: "The baby's crowning a nickel's worth," i.e., showing just a bit of its head. Minutes later, Paula gave birth to a healthy, 7½-lb. daughter. But the mother was hemorrhaging badly. Dr. Martin called the center for an emergency "wrecking crew." Within 20 minutes, a second doctor and nurse arrived with whole blood and plasma. Three hours later, assured that neither Paula nor her baby would suffer further complications, the crew was ready for another mission...
...shoulder trade. There were 300 exhibitors displaying everything from a build-it-yourself log cabin ($600) to assemble-it-yourself swimming pools, garage doors, gymnasiums, and gas stoves. In five days 100,000 West Coast fans paid $1.10 apiece to browse through the show and buy $1,000,000 worth of paints, power tools, plywood and plastics for their new hobby...