Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Acting on the week-old advice of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, President Eisenhower dramatically offered $15 million worth of food to hungry Easy Germany, and gave the Reds a chance to refuse it. They did, calling the offer an "insult," and thereby stood convicted of condemning East Germans to hunger. U.S. food supplies would still be shipped to Germany, and pictures of U.S. freighters, Hamburg-bound with milk, lard and flour, blazed in Europe's newspapers...
President Eisenhower lost no time in making public a dramatic and highly appropriate move. He offered last week to send $15 million worth of food into hunger-ridden East Germany. "Because of its position as an occupying power in GerMany, my Government," said Eisenhower, "has a legitimate interest in the welfare of the people of Germany." Both the U.S.S.R. and the East German Communist government shrilly rejected the Eisenhower offer, a rejection certain to increase the rebellious mood of East Germans...
...torpor of Washington's midsummer weather, the President of the U.S. reacted with vigor to last week's news. He conferred with John Foster Dulles and top military and diplomatic aides on the renewed Korean truce negotiations. In a shrewd diplomatic gesture, he offered $15 million worth of food to the people of East Germany. Then he turned to some distressed citizens of his own country...
...Evening Bulletin (circ. 693,104-"In Philadelphia nearly everybody reads the Bulletin"), he kept the Inquirer growing, started Seventeen, a fashion magazine for teenagers. (He also decided that two movie magazines, Radio Guide and Click, a picture magazine, ate up more hard-to-get paper than they were worth, killed them.) While the Bulletin added readers with its quiet, unexcited coverage, the Inquirer picked up its own circulation by digging itself deep into Philadelphia civic life, in 13 years has almost doubled its circulation...
Underpaid. In Melbourne, Australia, in the hospital for removal of two razor blades swallowed on a bet, Seaman Albert Graham told doctors: "It was a silly thing to do for only two quid [$4.48]. It was worth at least a fiver...