Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be worth ten times that amount to any business concern which would permit its salesmen to use their intelligence. I'm not talking about salary or expense account; I'm saying that I, and a dozen good salesmen I know personally, could earn $80,000 in legitimate commissions per year for any company which would let us sell honestly and to the limit of production of the company...
...economy-minded housewife who had always wanted free rein in a supermarket was turned loose with her family of six, loaded up with $69.87 worth of fancy groceries...
American Woolen called last week's special meeting to vote on its own prescription to heal the company: retire about $20 million worth of preferred stocks, thus eliminating about $1,000,000 a year in dividend charges; sell off eleven mills in New York and New England (nine were already shut down), thus cutting down overhead, and start a program of modernizing its remaining mills. Three of the company's eight directors opposed the stock retirement, among them influential New Haven Railroad President Frederic C. Dumaine...
SURPLUS military goods valued at $10 billion will soon go on the block in Operation Clean Sweep. Some $8 billion of this is considered strictly military equipment that the armed forces will either junk or dispose of to foreign countries, but $2 billion worth is civilian-type merchandise. The General Services Administration wants to offer the material to other government agencies first, then to the public. But the Defense Department, needing space for new equipment, wants to clean out its warehouses in public sales...
Visitors left with the impression that Darmouth acquaintances are worth cultivating. There will be another Carnival next year...