Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...announced reason for increasing stockpiles, which now contain $4.3 billion worth of materials, was that war might cut off the flow of strategic materials. Actually, the Administration was making a strategic virtue of economic necessity. Prices for many metals have softened so much since the shooting stopped in Korea that cries for help have sounded on the ears of Senators and Representatives from mining states. Increased stockpiling of 35 to 40 minerals and metals will tend to firm up prices, help keep U.S. mines and smelters in operation and tone down producers' demands for more tariff protection, since stockpile...
...shares. When brokerage firms shied away from selling them, Walters enlisted the help of a young customer's man named Jack Coombs, who set up shop at a coffee counter operated by Frank Whitney in the Continental Bank & Trust Co. Building. In a week, they sold $10,000 worth. With every $20 purchase, they threw in a cup of coffee. The stock quickly shot up as high as 8?, then slid down, but was still at 5½? last week...
Land of Opportunities. Walters went on to form another company, Aladdin Uranium, sold $43,000 worth at a penny a share. It has since gone up to 5?. All the while, Walters has kept stockholders encouraged by cheery reports that do not always bear on the company's prospects. Sample: "It is great to be able to pay taxes, and God bless America, the land of opportunities...
...unload at double or triple the price to latecomers. The big lure is that there is uranium in the Colorado Plateau, and in some places, lots of it. All the penny plungers dream of the day when their company makes the big strike-and their penny stocks suddenly are worth dollars...
Sidetracked. In Cleveland, suing for divorce, Olga Textoris, 25, said that her husband Edward, 27, refused to let her buy a $30 winter coat, next day bought himself some $35 worth of attachments for his electric train...