Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three have reputedly stolen thousands of dollars worth of student property since last Christmas...
...General Motors, became a vice president and the general manager of the Truck and Coach Division. When G.M. President Erwin Wilson was tabbed as Defense Secretary, he asked Kyes to be his No. 2 man. Kyes gave up his $85,000 salary (plus large bonuses), sold $200,000 worth of G.M. stock. When he learned that his new job would pay $20,000 and Wilson's $22,500, he remarked: "Well, I never thought I would get within $2,500 of C. E. Wilson...
...university collected 1,730 pints of blood and the Treasury sold $385,000 worth of bonds. When a radio interviewer asked a farmer what he thought of it all, he replied, in an unexpected display of laissez faire: "Don't know. I come into town to buy a shirt." But when May Day was over, the men in charge collected in a back room at the Moscow Hotel to mull things over. The crowd wasn't as big as they had hoped; the returning Korean prisoners had drawn the headlines away from their celebration; but they had satisfactorily...
Despite the flashy cars, the Negro's spending habits have changed radically. He saves much more than he used to. Big insurance companies, which once considered Negro business more trouble than it was worth, now go after it. Loan companies, car dealers, etc. find Negroes excellent credit risks. There are signs that the Negro has begun to develop a large, strong middle class. Some Negro leaders, in fact, believe?and they do not consider it a bad thing?that the Negro is turning into the nation's new Babbitt...
...duty each evening, he reports for work at the China Pheasant. By closing time (5 a.m.), Humes has usually lifted at least one drunk (white or colored) well above the floor and carried him into the street. Humes says he does not often wonder whether it's all worth it. But when he does, he thinks of his wife and of the new baby she is expecting. If that doesn't help, he prays...