Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under pressure from Washington, non-Communist shipments to Red China are dwindling. Example: in 1951, Malaya sent the Reds $32 million worth of natural rubber; last year, it sent practically none. Even Hong Kong's busy entrepot trade is quietly stagnating: monthly exports to the mainland dropped from $22.8 million in 1951 to $8.2 million last year...
...leader, however, needs "apostles -men whose aim will be to make [his] doctrine heartfelt by the mob ... A hundred sheep led by a lion are worth more than a hundred lions led by a sheep...
...anyone complains that his show is in doubtful taste, Edwards can retort by pointing to a long list of good works. On the air he has sold more than half a million dollars' worth of Government E bonds. He raised $1,639,000 for the American Heart Association and more than $3,000,000 for the March of Dimes. Of the Lillian Roth episode, he says: "The good it will do will far outweigh the thoughts that people might have against it. It's even good for kids to know that certain people can't handle liquor...
Television opera is an expensive business; it costs some $25,000 to mount ann hour's worth and sponsors witht that kind of money seldom choose to spend it on opera. But NBC comforts itself with the thought that the next best thing to profits is prestige. Since 1949, NBC-TV has boosted its prestige with more than a dozen operas, mostly without benefit of sponsors. Last week No. 16 on the list went before the cameras: Czech Composer Bohuslav Martinu's The Marriage. Like Gian-Carlo Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (TIME...
...unquestionably, it was Damon, aided by T.W.A.'s Chairman Pierson, the financial boss, who put T.W.A. into sound enough shape so that it could sell $10.5 million of new stock to the public, modernize its whole fleet with $100 million worth of new planes, and pay for all but $6,000,000 of it out of the line's income...