Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Copenhagen square complete with shops, canal, bridge, market and opera house. It has four lavish ballets, among them the 17-minute-long Little Mermaid number, danced by lively, poodle-topped French Ballerina Jeanmaire, Choreographer Roland Petit of the Ballets de Paris, and a chorus of mermaids among $400,000 worth of underwater caves, fish netting, giant shells, ship spars and Technicolored jetsam. Frank (Guys and Dolls) Loesser has written eight catchy songs, among them three based on Andersen tales, Little Thumbelina, The Emperor's New Clothes and The Ugly Duckling...
...consuming interest. He usually spends Saturday and Sunday in his Manhattan office because "I can get more work done when I'm alone." He has no social life, shuns the theater, movies, TV, but is a wide reader. A wealthy man (his Amerada stock alone is worth $8,000,000), he makes no show of it, wears a somber uniform of dark clothes, has no car, shuttles to his Manhattan office by subway from the staid old Plaza Hotel, where he has lived for 25 years. "I'm not gregarious," he says. "I don't have many...
...holdings along the Louisiana Gulf Coast, they took the job for cost, took stock and mortgage bonds in the company as Amerada's profit. Soon after, Amerada bought $95,000 of Louisiana Land stock. They found so much oil that Amerada's $95,000 investment is now worth $11 million, and has paid $4,365,850 more in dividends...
...when the British government took over the shares to pay for arms purchases, the Cowdray family held 17%. For this, the British government paid $5,000,000 in its own bonds at Amerada's then market price. The same shares were worth $100 million at this year's peak price, and Britain recently began selling them in the U.S. (Phelps Dodge Corp., copper producers, bought $19 million worth, thus got a 3% interest in Amerada...
...named Delmar W. Beman Sr. The author writes as a dog, in the first person, sometimes even breaks into doggerel. Sample verses to a watchdog: Watching o'er one's mind and soul, / Watching o'er one's kin and friend, / Make time and living worth the while, / Breed strength and sureness / And warmness of smile...