Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Viereck, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, will read a poem, "Some Refrains at the River Charles." Davis will speak on "Are We Worth Saving...
...hang of dry-cleaning. The tele jiol (Creole for word-of-mouth telegraph) advertised his service, and bundles of clothes poured in on muleback and in baskets on peasant women's heads. Jimmy expanded his plant, opened a laundry (the Blanchisserie Jimmy). Today his business is worth...
...lose the lead a second time. He swung his mouse-grey car under the checkered winner's flag three hours and 53 minutes after the race began. He had averaged 128.74 m.p.h.. second fastest time in the speedway's 52-year history, and had earned prizes worth...
With the U.S. still running a deficit, one way to make each dollar worth more is to reduce the supply of money (now $130 billion). Restricting credit has that effect. But the FRB could not raise reserve rates; in general they were already at the maximum. It could, and did, raise the discount rate (from 1¾% to 2%). Then, in order to get a large part of the debt away from banks which would use it to expand credit, the Treasury offered $1 billion worth of 30-year bonds, with an interest rate (3¼%) high enough to make...
...production has risen to almost 25% more than its 1938 peacetime peak; its work force is now 35,000. In 1951, Daimler-Benz led all West German auto makers in value of production (800 million Deutsche mark, or $190 million), this year expects to produce 1 billion ($238 million) worth of autos and trucks. Already better than one-fourth of its production is in exports, and recently the company started shipping...