Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your delineation of the character and worth of Bishop Otto Dibelius accords so fully with the information and insights which we have gained through a variety of contacts with him and his writings . . . There is something exhilarating about standing up to external foes of the sort Bishop Dibelius has been meeting head on in more recent years. In 1945 he dared to confront the wasting, undramatic and wearying-to-the-marrowbone enemies: insensibility, indifference and malice toward any expression of hope. To the bled-white spirits of his countrymen he dared to cry, "Lift up your hearts in prayer...
...Decided that the presidential yacht Williamsburg was a "needless luxury," ordered the gleaming 244-ft. vessel mothballed during his term in office. ¶ Recommended that the Government's $550 million worth of synthetic rubber plants, created during World War II, be turned over to private industry...
Then, branching into the bookkeeping area, the committee demonstrated how much cash a few administrative decisions could pile up. By cutbacks (e.g., slashing $795 million from the Public Housing Administration's proposed expenditures) and sales of assets (e.g., $1 billion worth of mortgages held by the Federal National Mortgage Association), the U.S. could better its cash balances by $2.8 billion all told, the committee reported. While some of these "savings" amounted to little more than transferring assets from one pocket to another, they nonetheless were an indicator of John Taber's frame of mind about the major budget...
Where in the world does the U.S. do the biggest share of its foreign trading? In the Latin American republics, says the Department of Commerce. In 1952 the 20 republics sold the U.S. coffee, minerals, sugar, oil and other products worth $3,410,000,000. They bought U.S. machinery, cars, wheat, chemicals and other products worth $3,477,000,000. The two figures, added together, easily topped either of the other major trading areas, Western Europe and Canada...
Among the 20 republics, Mexico was the best customer, buying two-thirds of a billion dollars' worth of U.S. goods. Other big buyers: Brazil ($564 million), Cuba ($516 million), Venezuela ($500 million). Brazil led the suppliers, sending $808 million, mostly in coffee. Runners-up: Cuba ($438 million, mostly sugar), Mexico ($411 million, mostly lead and zinc), Venezuela ($396 million, mostly...