Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign has already proved its worth. Last year practically every calf born in Florida was infested with screwworms, and total infestations of cattle averaged 35,000 per month. Since March, only 600 cases were reported-the equivalent of a saving of many millions of dollars for Florida cattlemen...
...retailer would make the usual profit. A watchmaker preticketed a lady's wristwatch at $200, a Detroit store sold the watch for $17.00. A blanket manufacturer offered retailers $24.95-list blankets that a retailer sold at $14.95; comparative shopping showed that they were not worth $10.00. One major mattress maker now gives his retailers a choice of three different list prices to be sewn to the ticking. Which preticket the merchant chooses depends on 1) what sales price he plans to ask, 2) how big a reduction he thinks his customers will swallow...
...that used to be their bread and butter. What more and more women want is the kind of high-fashion Vogue patterns long sold by Conde Nast. The originals would cost perhaps $600, but-almost any woman can copy them for the cost of a $3 pattern and $50 worth of fine fabric (Vogue patterns even supply a Paris label...
Taller than egos, Stetsons or oil rigs, the tallest things in Texas are banks. Busting out all over in an unparalleled boom, their huge buildings dominate the skyline in Dallas, Houston, San Antonio and Fort Worth. Texas has more banks than any other state: 968 with total deposits of $10.4 billion, combined resources of $11.6 billion. Texas bankers succeed by fighting for business like warring supermarket operators on a Saturday afternoon -while also wearing Homburg hats and speaking in muted tones. The man who best combines such Texas talents is taut, wiry, fiercely competitive Fred F. Florence, 67, head...
Several History and Literature concentrators have protested that the works now assigned for various fields were already covered extensively in courses or tutorial. They feel, for example, that most concentrators in English History and Literature are familiar with Words-worth's Preludes, the book assigned them this year...