Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Flower Drum Song. Rodgers & Hammerstein have left their genius out of this routine musical, but Pat Suzuki and Miyoshi Umeki are worth the price of omissions...
...Models. With such imaginative merchandising, John Long last year built and sold 2,500 houses worth more than $30 million, shared the home-building record of the year with Miami's Mackle brothers, who build their houses for General Development Corp. (TIME, March 30). Unlike the Mackles and most other big builders, Long is building all his houses in a single location, plans to put up at least 8,000 more houses before Maryvale is completed. He offers new models every six months to attract customers. Says Long: "It's like retooling and offering new models...
Many stockholders are baffled by splits; they think that a 2-for-1 split doubles their money. Actually a stock split does not of itself increase the stockholders' equity at all. The new shares are based on the same corporate net worth, thus are technically worth precisely half the old. Sewell Avery, former board chairman of Montgomery Ward, long opposed splits, sneered at them as "two hat checks...
...enemies figured out other ways to attack him. Wholesalers who had previously helped him asked him to take his business elsewhere. Said one: "I like your business, M. Leclerc, but every time I sell you 1,000,000 francs worth of goods, I lose 30 million in canceled orders elsewhere." When things looked black, Leclerc's plight came to official attention in Paris. Economic Minister Antoine Pinay and other high officials saw in his crusade a way to raise French living standards without causing an inflationary wage increase, which they knew would only be soaked up in higher prices...
...soar higher and higher. Again, Stendahl had no intention of letting the weather conspire with the gods on the day of Julien's execution to show cloudiness and blue, the spacious firmament. Sorel strode to his death all right, but not to the majestic rumble of five symphonies' worth of kettle drums...