Word: worth
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...empire is a short (4 ft. 10 in.), plump woman of 71 with a youthful complexion. When she is at work in her eight-story Fifth Avenue salon, she is Helena Rubinstein. At home, in her 26-room, three-floor Park Avenue apartment, crammed with about $1,000,000 worth of paintings (Matisse, Picasso, Dufy, etc.) and art treasures, she likes to be called Princess Gourielli (her husband is a Georgian nobleman turned businessman...
Last year, Helena Rubinstein Inc. sold $18 million worth of creams, lotions and perfumes in the U.S., Canada and Latin America. Rubinstein salons and outlets abroad sold $12 million more. That was not enough for Helena Rubinstein. Last week, in Roslyn, N.Y., she opened a new $4,000,000 plant to put her beauty business on an assembly-line basis and triple her production. Made mostly of glass, it has dustproof floors, a sealed, odorproof room for testing perfumes, huge, stainless-steel mixing vats to churn up tons of cream and cologne, and machines to fill 1,000,000 bottles...
...sold in Cracow, Poland, where Helena Rubinstein was born, the eldest of eight daughters. At 18, she went to Australia to visit relatives, carrying some of the cream with her; she soon saw that windburned Australian ranch wives provided a market. She rented a Melbourne shop, sold $100,000 worth of the cream her first year, and bought the Hungarian's formula. She moved to London, opened a second salon, soon opened shops in Paris and New York...
...Lehman Bros, paid her about $7,000,000 for two-thirds of the firm, in, corporated it, put its stock on the Curb, and went after mass markets. But, says Helena Rubinstein, "they thought they could do better selling everything for a dollar. They sold $50,000 worth more than I had and still made less profits. Some women won't buy anything unless they can pay a lot. They were ruining the business." Since the market crash had meanwhile driven the company's stock from $70 to $3, Mme. Rubinstein was able to grab back control...
...just had four or five Martinis. Often when the bids hang after a quick runup, Finney interrupts the proceedings with a little spice. "Come on, gentlemen," he will say, "you're surely not going to let this fine horse go for only $7,500. Why, this filly is worth twice as much as the bid, just to breed, even if she never raced." (During the Depression Announcer Finney was equally reluctant to "let this fine horse...