Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...swallow does not make a summer," said Babcock, "but I pass it on to other young hopefuls for what it is worth. Certainly there is an indication that selection is made on some other basis than pure merit. But I hold no grudge against Poetry. I just selected a poem I thought was good and sent it to a well-known magazine that I thought worthy of testing. This is my last attempt at hoax...
Also, Dic Neue Zeitung, the American controlled newspaper in Germany, has the readership and general admiration of over 200,000 subscribers. As the font of U. S. expression, it has dignity and great selling value for freedom and is worth its annual bill of 3.1 million. To end either the native or U.S. publications because they sometimes offend McCarthy would weaken German opinion of democracy. Every dictator tries first to stifle the press, and America would earn a title close to "dictator" by withdrawing financial props from publications for exercising free speech within...
...very well have been favorably reviewed in the Daily Worker. It was well reviewed everywhere, including many papers in the South ... I think a thorough investigation . . . would show him to be politically 'clean' . . . More is at stake than one man's job ... a free press is worth more to all of us than an intimidated press...
...Force canceled orders for $100 million worth of J47 jet engines made by Packard and Studebaker under license from General Electric, the primary producer. The cancellation amounted to a one-third cut in Studebaker and Packard engine orders, and meant that the two companies' engine contracts would end some time next year...
...think wants a date with me ... He must have missed the first notice." Invitation Accepted. In Milwaukee, citizens who were invited to help themselves to the kindling wood left over from the dismantling of Borchert Field also carried off the main gate, 118 benches, two tool sheds, $105 worth of tools...