Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sausage Skins for Steel. Other U.S. allies share Britain's attitude: ¶ French businessmen signed an $11.2 million contract with Peking at the Moscow Economic Conference. The deal: French metals and chemicals for Chinese silk, tea and sausage casings. ¶ West Germans in 1951 swapped $4 million worth of chemicals and machinery for Chinese ores and hog bristles...
While the totalitarian threat emphasizes the worth of American political values, the contributors fear the demand for uncritical affirmation of American society and culture. Essential to creative activity is freedom to criticize without fear, the right to love one aspect of America and to loath another. Such criticism represents a more productive commitment to a society than unquestioning acceptance. For creative achievement, the lingering sense of intellectual alienation is a necessity...
Boston College High School's fine all-around athlete Bill Donlon has been offered the McDonald McKay Scholarship worth $12,000 for undergraduate study and a possible two years of graduate work at the University...
Finally, the Coop should buy with the student in mind. Complete supplies are worth the risk of slight over-stocking, as long as it is the students' store...
...deal of it was due to the energy of Ham Moses and the Arkansas Economic Council and community development program which he inspired. Until recently, Arkansas was especially celebrated as a butt for bad jokes by Northerners. In 1944, Ham Moses went to New York to sell $35 million worth of Arkansas Power & Light bonds, was laughed out of many a Wall Street office. He finally sold the bonds, but, he said: "Everybody thought we were just a state of hillbillies and swampers." When Arkansas tried to lure new industry to one small town, it got a blunt answer from...