Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...matter, a $5 billion increase in our imports would not displace any workers in the total American labor force. If payment for these imports reduced the need for foreign aid by this amount, an offsetting reduction in taxes would permit the American consumer to buy an additional $2 billion worth of goods. If foreign-aid payments were not affected, such imports would permit foreign buyers to buy an additional $2 billion worth of our goods...
Back at the prison, Henderson, a man who owns 23,000 acres of Texas cattle and oil land and believes himself worth approximately half a million dollars, clung stubbornly to his old theory that young Franks was made of worthwhile stuff...
...week's end Washington had relented somewhat. Though most of the technicians were already heading for home, the U.S. agreed to prolong the life of the joint commission for another three or four months. Brazilian Ambassador Walther Moreira Salles also got word that another $48 million worth of electric-power loans would probably be granted before the end of June, and that the World Bank would open a special office in Rio to keep the bank up to date on the backlog of $226 million worth of pending loan projects after the commission folds...
...jewelry, lithographs, displays of fabric printing, weaving, furniture. Museumgoers pounced on their favorite exhibits as fiercely as customers at Macy's, fought off rival buyers. Museum staffers estimated that by the time the show closes next week, 120,000 citizens will have visited it, and bought $30,000 worth...
...fascinating find posed problems. It could be hung so that both sides would be visible, or the two sides could be separated. But St. Peter's paint was flaking. Restoring it, thought museum officials, would not be worth the effort. They decided, to the dismay of Rotterdam's museumgoers, simply to hang the picture back up again the way it was before. Last week the Offering was in place for all to see, while St. Peter's face was turned to the wall, consigned to oblivion...