Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Coronation day remembrances were ready to be handed out. Some of them: a gift of up to two ounces of candy for every school-age child in the British Isles; "a coronation propelling pencil" for every schoolchild in London-some $174,000 worth of pencils in all; a check for 2 guineas ($5.88) for every baby born in Birmingham on coronation day, a free drink of whisky for every father and free nylons for every mother of a coronation day baby in Baldock, Hertfordshire...
...victory was worth $65,200, bringing the Dancer's total earnings in two years of racing up to $440,245. For his age, he was already well ahead of racing's only millionaire horse, Citation...
...Fort Worth, bantam Ben Hogan, coming from behind with rounds of 73, 71, 71 and 67, won the $25,000 Colonial golf tournament...
Last week Humphrey temporarily abandoned his hope of floating new longer-term issues. For $4.9 billion worth of refinancing required for June, he resorted to one-year certificates. But he did not abandon his policy of higher interest. The certificates were offered at 2 5/8%, the highest short-term Treasury rate in 20 years...
...shares of common stock held by the public. Wall Street calculated that after the preferred stock, debts and taxes were paid off, there would be a net from the sale of $17.5 million. On that basis, each of the 503,370 LeTourneau shares is worth about $35 in cash from the sale, plus the value of unsold assets in the part of the company LeTourneau retains. LeTourneau himself has no intention of retiring. He plans to go into new manufacturing ventures, which include a trackless, rubber-tired "Tournatrain," for use in deserts and jungles...