Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock that Manhattan's Harry Schweitzer bought in 1955 at 38¾ is up to 60¾. His Continental Steel has gone from 33⅜ to 57¼, his Hecht Co. from 29¾ to 42⅝. All in all, the 895 shares in the Schweitzer portfolio were worth $21,000 and represented a handsome $12,000 profit, not to mention Harry's $1,600 savings accounts chunked together from dividends...
...original that it violated copyright laws. Benny fought the case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court (TIME, March 31), lost all the way, finally had to pay M-G-M a hefty (but undisclosed) price for permission to broadcast it. On the air, it hardly seemed worth all the fuss. Despite a few diverting sight gags-e.g., Benny, in full Victorian rig, standing impassive as ceiling plaster rains down on him-the long-delayed take-off shed more gas than light. One of the rare high spots: when Benny urges his wife (Barbara Stanwyck) to take dinner...
Love. I don't remember when it first happened, I was so young; fifteen, and my hair hung down to my shoulders. I want love. Love is an instant of beauty with a sleek young man. Yes, love is worth it, I'll sell my body for the one possible beautiful instant. I can't help having begun wrong and now having to sell it, I was a poor girl, unskilled, thrown out onto the world...
...face of expense and uncertainty. Today, the maturing U.S. atomics industry is made up of about 100 major Government and privately owned manufacturing and research organizations. They range from such small firms as Baird-Atomic, Inc. and Nuclear Science and Engineering, with only a few million dollars worth of business in supplying the major atomics firms, to such giants as Westinghouse and Du Pont, whose contracts run into hundreds of millions (see box). Several of them are ahead of G.E. in certain fields, but none have met the challenge of the atom on a broader front...
JOHNS-MANVILLE CORP. (1957 sales: $308 million) purchased Libbey-Owens-Ford subsidiary L-O-F Glass Fibers Co. (1957 sales: $23 million), second only to Owens-Corning Fiberglas in the industry, for stock worth $58 million...