Word: worth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Goldilocks notices were lukewarm, but Moneyman Stevens was not bothered, for he is a hardened hand at flops. In eight years, out of $4,000,000 worth of plays, he has had some 20 hits, 30 misses. This fall he is already responsible for two flops: Howie and A Handful of Fire. But balancing them, his Producers' Theater has brought in Eugene O'Neill's ponderous success, A Touch of the Poet. And other Stevens projects include such items as The Pleasure of His Company, with Cornelia Otis Skinner, The Man in the Dog Suit, with Hume...
...lowering automatic pay boosts. For every $1 contributed by an employee (up to 6% of his earnings), G.E. offered to contribute 50?, invest the money in G.E. stock or U.S. savings bonds. G.E. computed that a worker making $5,000 per year would have as much as $5,281 worth of bonds in his savings fund after ten years. The plan got nowhere with high-voltage Jim Carey, who last January called the recession an obvious union-busting plot. He charged that the plan is a scheme to drive up the price of G.E. stock, enriching top executives who "have...
...deal that he made with Gerber Products was typical: if jerber would come in, the state's agricultural extension service would send out agents to teach farmers how to grow7 the foods that Gerber wanted. Result: a Gerber plant is abuilding near Asheville, will buy $10 million worth of North Caro-ina fruits and vegetables yearly. Furthermore, Swift & Co., following the opening of an Armour & Co. plant at Charlotte, in a few months will complete a $17 million plant at Wilson, will spur the state's production of meat...
...floor and panned $278 from it in two hours. Dance-hall girls charged the miners $1 for one minute of dancing. and two miners actually had valets in their log huts. Fine dog teams, says Author Berton, were the Cadillacs of the time. "Nigger Jim" had one that was worth $2,500, and his sled had a built-in bar from which he treated his pals...
...every man could think and worship as he pleases, whether he be right or wrong, and in the majority or a minority, so long as others have the same right. The resulting interplay can create still better views. This principle allows every faith to flourish for whatever it is worth; and no faith ought to swallow or seem to threaten to swallow the public hand that has sheltered...