Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fiat-Footed Marketeers. In the Far East alone, some $110 million worth was called in. The secret was well kept. To reduce last-minute deals, troops were confined to bases before the news was broadcast, sailors confined to their ships (some thought they were about to be sent to Indo-China). Black-marketeers everywhere were caught flat-footed with thousands, perhaps millions, of dollars worth of MPCs, which turned to worthless paper in their hands...
...Moscow along with other labor leaders. The fact that Holy Week services were allowed in some Moscow churches made a vivid impression on him. Since then, the Reds have had Blest's ear, and when he was elected, president of C.U.T. last year, it became an ear well worth having...
...Dancer saw to it that the halt en route was not omitted. He took the other bright gemstones of the Triple Crown, the Preakness at a mile and three-sixteenths and the Belmont at a mile and a half, and just about every other three-year-old prize worth having east of the Mississippi. It proved that in addition to speed, the Dancer had stamina; the greater the distance, the better he seemed to go. But in September 1953 Trainer Winfrey detected some soreness in the Dancer's left forefoot and a limp in his walk. It was a stone...
...N.T.A., the first national organization in which doctors and laymen combined to fight a single disease, and to its 3,000 local chapters and two affiliates, the American Trudeau Society (for physicians) and the National Conference of Tuberculosis Workers. Supported by sales of Christmas seals ($23 million worth last year), they have spread the gospel that TB is, in the main, a preventable disease, that no effort should be spared to detect it early, and that treatment must be prompt. But last week's conferees were in no mood to write off the job as done...
...their own. In Florida citrus men laid plans for a futures market in booming citrus concentrates, whose prices fluctuate as much as 60% in a season. In Chicago a futures market in scrap iron and steel will open late this summer at the huge Mercantile Exchange, where $1.3 billion worth of farm products are now sold each year. Eventually, metalmen hope to trade up to 24,000 tons of scrap iron and steel...