Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Five Loaves Apiece. To bolster farm income, the Department of Agriculture has been using and will continue to use "every tool at its command," the Secretary said. As a result of its efforts, the Federal Government now owns or has made loans on $5 billion worth of farm products; e.g., it is holding 425 million bushels of wheat-enough to make five loaves of bread for every human being in the world-and has made loans on 764 million bushels of corn. The Government's storage bill for all farm commodities is $465,000 a day. Asked Benson: "What...
...hearings, needled Stevens into saying: "We have been unable to find anything relating to espionage." McCarthy burned and bored into the counterpunch. He grimly promised to open up the hearings and "let the evidence speak for itself." The Harry Dexter White case, which had given Joe $300,000 worth of free TV time, greatly enhanced interest in his revival of the Fort Monmouth hearings...
...textile machinery. Koehring Co. took one-fourth of the stock in the new company and a royalty of 5% on gross sales. In return, it gave its technical help, and undertook to train Japanese technicians in the U.S. Since then, the company has turned out $1,000,000 worth of cement-handling equipment, increased its backlog...
...hands as A. J. Cronin and James Hilton, an occasional thoughtful and readable story-James Michener's The Bridges at Toko-ri, Herman Wouk's The Came Mutiny, now in its third year of best-sellerdom-but not one new work of topflight fiction. The novels worth cheering about-and there were several in 1953-had relatively scant commercial success...
...Life Is Worth Living, Fulton J. Sheen A Man Called Peter, Catherine Marshall