Word: worth
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Water for Life. The data the scientists brought back to Dr. Strong proved worth the trouble. Inscribed on a thin strip of wax paper were spectroscopic readings of the light from Venus. They showed that when the sun's light passes through Venus' atmosphere, certain infra-red lines are partially absorbed, providing dramatic evidence that Venus' cloudy atmosphere contains water vapor...
Truth Shows. Even on CBS, the giveaways still had a fighting chance, all tucked into a clause that said schlock was taboo "except where reasonably necessary and natural." Art Linkletter, whose CBS show House Party gives away about $3,000 worth of prizes a week, promptly announced: "If we can't qualify for the 'except' rule, somebody will have to pay for the prizes...
...that phase out of my system"). At 30, he bought Bridgeport Pattern and Model Works with "$80 and a $3,000 loan,'1 changed its name to Bridgeport Machines, Inc., and went to work manufacturing milling machines. The company now has 400 profit-sharing, nonunion employees, is worth $6,500,000. Married and the father of two daughters, Bannow sings a rousing first bass in a Bridgeport male chorus, the North Star Singers, has given up soccer with Bridgeport's Swedish Athletic Club to play golf. Traveling with his wife, he will spend two weeks out of four...
...with $1,500,000 borrowed from friends, Lee established South China Textile, Ltd., the first major textile mill in Hong Kong. Over the past decade, problems have been over come, and from Lee's daring example has grown an industry that this year will ex port $110 million worth of garments. So successful is Hong Kong as a garment center that U.S. manufacturers and labor unions now want restrictions on cotton exports to the U.S. Last week Industry Leader C. C. Lee was again hard at work. His association of the most poweful exporters to the U.S. was working...
...final night of solicitation, Eliot House moved up from second place to win the $20 worth of phonograph records offered by the Coop to the House with the largest rate of per capita giving in the Combined Charities Drive. The Eliot House average was $6.53, nearly double the winning figure of last year...