Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...banks' paying 3% interest on minimum balances . . . cooks earning $10.50 a day, etc. . . . Some banks do pay 1% interest but that is all. A good cook may earn Bs. 10 or Bs. 12 per day, but since a bolivar is worth about 30?, you can figure out what her actual earnings...
...prevented the Yonkers track from getting a harness-racing franchise, thus forcing it to sell control at a low price (estimated at $2,000,000) to the Roosevelt group. Among the Roosevelt-Yonkers owners: Nassau County Republican Boss J. Russel Sprague (who paid only $80,000 for stock now worth $400,000), two ex-members of the district attorney's staff, and Publisher James E. Stiles, owner of the defunct Nassau Daily Review-Star, Newsday's opposition. Newsday also broke the news that Labor Boss De Koning posed as a "nephew" and visited Sing Sing prison for conferences...
...went to a near-slum district in Brooklyn," the young schoolteacher said. "I was full of ideals, and after six months I was certain I just couldn't stand another day of it. I made myself stick-I told myself that my ideals wouldn't be worth much if I didn't fight for them, and I stayed on for four years before I gave up. I learned a lot of things about teaching that aren't in the books. In a high school like ours, you have a few tough ones and a few vicious...
...turns out that Sabrina's father has been investing his salary in the stock market for twenty-five years; he is now worth over a million dollars. The two young rich people can get married...
...goes for years, with nobody the wiser. One night with one wife, one with the other. "Two women," as the captain congratulates himself, "each with half of the things a man wants." It's all too good to last, of course-so good that it is worth the price of admission to find out what goes wrong...