Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fort Worth, Texas...
Ulen is "well pleased" with Jimmy Jorgenson and Ted Whatley in the sprints and Eric Uland and Worth Bingham in the back stroke...
...Governor's shocked indignation impressed voters at first, perhaps, but the brutal conduct of the raid quickly disillusioned most and invited swarms of anti-Pyle editorials in Arizona's newspapers. One must wonder whether the satisfaction of moral absolutists in Phoenix is worth the problem caused in a hamlet two hundred miles from the nearest "civilized" metropolis of ten thousand people...
...chemical industry was changing other landscapes, too. Outside Cleveland, a 30-mile stretch of Lake Erie shoreline was dubbed "Chemical Shore." Along it lay $235 million worth of chemical plants, and $40 million more will be spent on new plants there in the next two years. Sprouting skyscrapers attested to Denver's new role as an oil capital, as new fields opened up in the area; 250 miles away, on the Colorado Plateau, an entirely new industry-at once somber and all-promising-was thriving. Uranium mining and processing, which employed fewer than five dozen men on the plateau...
Humphrey soon learned that despite all the ranting against inflation, the U.S. had come to like it in small doses. While it had meant a cheapening dollar (worth 52? last year v. 100? in 1939), inflation had also spelled more jobs and better living. So when it looked as if the nation's special form of inflation might be halted, people immediately assumed that the good things might disappear as well. No one seemed to want a dollar that was worth more if there were to be fewer of them around. So Humphrey quickly changed his course, assuring...