Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boss of Long Island's rock-ribbed Republican Nassau County (pop. 672,765), is J. Russel Sprague, old friend and crafty political lieutenant of New York's Governor Thomas E. Dewey. Last week Sprague, under fire for his ownership of $500.000 worth of stock (which cost him, in effect, $24,000) in the scandal-ridden Yonkers Raceway, resigned as New York's Republican national committeeman...
...management payoffs to labor bosses and gambling racketeers, Sprague's name often popped up. He had owned a big slice of the Nassau Trotting Association, which operated Roosevelt Raceway. In 1946 he sold the stock for a tidy profit. Later, he bought 4,000 shares of stock (then worth $20 a share) in Westchester County's Yonkers Raceway, paying for them on the installment plan, mostly out of their own dividends...
...Leagues. The dollars have been pouring in during the past three years. In 1949, Curtiss-Wright did $128 million worth of business; this year the figure will soar well over $400 million, and profits have more than tripled to $9,000,000. Roy Hurley has another way of figuring his company's economic health. With the new assembly line and better tools, each of the 20,000 workers at Curtiss-Wright's Wood-Ridge plant will turn out $14,000 worth of engines a year. Says Hurley, "That's just about what the auto companies like General...
...committee would lop off a student's time, particularly if he be well-prepared before he came. His school-college life it would make only seven hours long. Why not instead make Yale a place where there is rich enough offering for everyone, making it worth-while to spend four years here no matter how bright or well-prepared the student be? Education is more than a matter of course. It is also a matter of time...
...award, worth more than $300, goes each year to "that senior in Harvard Law College, preparing to enter Harvard Law School who is best fitted by intellect, character and physique to be influenced by Saltonstall's example and in turn to influence others...