Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With that, the President was off to Washington to wrestle with a century's worth of fast-changing foreign-relations problems. All in all, the U.S. would be the better for his trip, for Eisenhower could now act with the confidence that the sources of his strength were not only still there, but multiplied...
...stretcher-bearer in an engineer corps during World War I. "There," he recalls, "in the midst of machines, I felt my taste for the mechanical and dynamic side of modern life grow . . . I said, and I still think, that to see a howitzer shell shining in the sun is worth more than all visits to museums...
...footnote on his personal history. In 1926, on his marriage to Irénée's daughter Margaretta, Irénée had presented Greenewalt with 1,000 shares of stock in Christiana Securities Co., the holding company that controls Du Pont. The stock was then worth about $1,000,000 (current value: $6,500,000). But that, said Greenewalt, was a Du Pont gesture "to give an employee incentive, just like any other bonus...
...Fonts denied the Government's charge that their purchase of $25 million worth of G.M. stock in 1917 was part of a plan to make G.M. a captive closed market for Du Pont products. The purchase was made largely because the late John J. Raskob, the treasurer of Du Pont, had recommended that Du Pont waste no time getting into the young auto business. Raskob's recommendation had also stated: "Our interest in [G.M.] will undoubtedly secure for us the entire Fabrikoid [artificial leather], pyralin [celluloid], paint and varnish business . . ." But Pierre du Pont declared: "There...
Savings Plan. In Las Vegas, Nev., Motorist Ray N. Hall slept in his car to save on hotel bills, woke up to find $150 worth of luggage stolen, went to call police, returned to find the rest of his belongings gone...