Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every year Administration officials breathe more easily when the Smoker staggers to a halt. Although they are never satisfied with the Smoker, they feel it is worth the risk despite the yearly threat of injury and serious property destruction. It seems, they have said, a good psychological defense against the exuberance that freshmen feel when they find that three C's and a D are not so hard to get after all-that same exuberance which leads to riots and bomb throwing in the Yard. It was an attempt to substitute foam flecked Brotherhood and Good Fellowship for town-gown...
FRANCE, which last year signed its first commercial treaty with Russia since 1934 (TIME, Nov. 2), is feeling some of the headaches that go with Communist trade. In the first months of the pact, France shipped $6,300,000 worth of goods (mainly textiles, fruit, and iron and steel products) more than it received. Soviet shipments, notably of corn, are lagging, and its oil is of such poor quality that French refineries cannot turn it into gasoline at competitive prices without a government subsidy...
...millions into the liquid-concentrate revolution, the citrus industry may be on the threshold of another upheaval: crystal concentrates, easy to ship and inexpensive to store, that can be turned into fruit juice with the addition of water. Florida's Orange Crystal, Inc. last year offered $300,000 worth of stock to finance such a plant, sold the issue...
...started to concentrate on concentrates. They control Dade City's $15 million Pasco citrus-processing plant, biggest in the state, which in 24 hours can turn out enough fruit products to fill three 50-car freight trains. On an average, the 83 members of the Lykes family are worth some $2,000,000 apiece...
...symbolisms. Any Graves fan can see that a talented righthander has been giving his left hand a workout. But there are well-written, offbeat stories by such U.S. writers as Alfred Chester and Elizabeth Hardwick that few magazines would try out on their readers. The princess thought they were worth Drinting, and she was right. Poetry is another of the princess' passions, and Botteghe has it in abundance. It ranges from the pretentious, comma-plagued lines of Philippines-born José Garcia Villa...