Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...less than half the price of butter, has pre-empted more than half the consumer market.* Many a postwar baby has never tasted butter. The Government, in order to keep its support pledge, has bought up the huge surplus supply of butter, now owns 88,623,288 lbs., worth nearly $60 million, and is now buying butter under the support plan at the rate of a million pounds a day. The U.S. buttery will continue to swell under the new Benson order. Some experts predict that federal butter holdings may climb to half a billion pounds by midsummer...
...Head Worth $300,000. In Seoul the revolutionaries set up an underground provisional government, named Rhee as first president in absentia. The Japanese began a bloody purge of the nationalists and put a price of $300,000 on Rhee's head. At a conference in Shanghai in 1920 the Korean nationalists laid plans for organized military action against the Japanese. Later, when the Japanese army attacked Manchuria, a 20,000-man Korean national army fought beside Chinese soldiers...
...Portsmouth Steel (25% owned by Eaton, family and friends) which in turn owns more than 25% of Detroit Steel Co. and more than 10% of Cleveland Cliffs Iron Co., one of the biggest U.S. ore shippers. These two holdings are worth $13.5 million...
...worth of Chesapeake & Ohio common, making him the railroad's biggest individual stockholder...
...More than $6,000,000 worth of stock in West Kentucky Coal Co., which gives him control...