Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Smith, playing ninth, beat Tim Scarf, 7-5, 6-0, while Chute, at number ten, outlasted Toby Worth, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. Princeton picked up its only singles wins at seven and eight, where John Cartier beat Jim Cameron, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, and Kit Huttig used his tremendous overhead shot to defeat Laurie Pratt...
...best college complex, fed by Dixie's best public school system. In the center of the Piedmont, engineers mapped sites for nuclear, chemical and industrial research labs in a new, 4,000-acre "Research Triangle." East of Charlotte's booming suburbs, Alcoa let $40 million worth of contracts to expand its aluminum plant. Over the South's best highway net, semitrailers snorted day and night to serve a state economy so vigorous that it kept right on growing through the late recession...
...from Segregation. In the solid granite Capitol in Raleigh, white-haired Governor Luther Hartwell Hodges, 61, businessman turned politician, totted up some headline statistics that proved the vigor behind his fondest dream: from January to March, industry built some $25,000,000 worth of new plants in North Carolina to add 5,600 new jobs (up 40% over 1958) paying $16 million a year (up 46%) to the state's payrolls. Showing its heels to its industry-hungry neighbors, North Carolina would almost certainly better its 1958 total of $253,000,000 in new-plant investment, tops...
Business of Government. A new source of risk capital, Hodges knew, was needed to help Tarheels start new small enter prises of their own. He launched a privately financed Business Development Corp., personally headed a campaign that sold $1,000,000 worth of $10 shares (he bought $5,000 worth) for a kitty to back small business. Though B.D.C.'s fund represented only a small stick of capital, Hodges gave it leverage by signing up banks and loan associations to participate in B.D.C. risks. Run by a board of prominent citizens, B.D.C. took part in small loans totaling...
...Lebanon. Founded in 1823, the Syria-Lebanon mission has been mainly the responsibility of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) and the Congregationalists. But now the 57 missionaries who remain will be "fraternal workers" under the authority of the new church, and about $1,000,000 worth of schools, colleges, hospitals and other properties will pass to Arab Christian ownership...