Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Attack on Ike. With that to go on, Joe McCarthy demanded and got from timid radio and TV networks a free half hour (worth an estimated $300,000 at commercial rates) to answer Truman's "attack upon me." But what the Wisconsin Senator said about White and Truman was much less interesting than what he said about the Eisenhower Administration...
Crazy and Cool (Victor LP). An anthology of bop that contains minor frenzies by Dizzie Gillespie, Charlie Parker, the Metronome All Stars, and a strangely old-fashioned item by Gene Krupa's band. Worth the price of admission: 30 startling seconds by Charlie Ventura's virtuoso vocalists...
...leave you with a limp." Mr. Clarkson told Terry, but the boy, then n, thought it was worth while, and his mother agreed. So he spent six weeks in an uncomfortable position, with his fingerless left hand joined to the toes of his left foot by a skin flap. Then Surgeon Clarkson amputated the toes and grafted them in place of the missing fingers. That was 4½ years...
...stocks on hand: 426 million bu. of wheat v. 133 million last year, 457 million bu. of corn v. 280 million in 1952, 426 million Ibs. of dried milk v. 31 million. In an effort to get rid of the surpluses, the U.S. is willing to sell $130 million worth for soft currencies. Britain has agreed to take $20 million worth of tobacco; West Germany will, take:-as a gift-$15 million worth of soybeans and tobacco. But the rest of Europe, fearful of U.S. dumping, will have none of the surpluses...
...capacity of warehouses is more than doubled. Such savings are important, but the biggest chance to cut distribution costs is at the retailer's level. Two of the most promising developments have been the rapid increase in automatic vending machines (which last year dispensed more than $1.5 billion worth of goods) and the spread of self-service selling, even to department and drug stores. The self-service supermarket has not only trimmed distribution costs enough to cut its average markup to 16%, but it has done much to change the manufacturer's selling methods. Johnson...