Word: worth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cash, gave the manager a receipt and disappeared. Eight days later, burglars chopped through the roof of the Coleman E. Adler & Sons jewelry firm and dropped into the store to spend hours burning open the main vault with acetylene torches. They left with $1,000,000 worth of jewels...
...conservative wing of the party. Brandt is betting that the Socialists will do so well in office that even if the Free Democrats should defect after a year or so, he could call new elections and win a substantial margin of seats. In any event, to Brandt it is worth the gamble if it means the Socialists can once again hold the power that has so often eluded them...
According to generally accepted financial theory, this should have been an invitation to disaster. The assumption behind the IMF fixed-exchange rules is that uncertainty about what a major currency is worth from day to day will paralyze world trade and investment. Instead, trading in German money was heavy but orderly, and the mark's price rose 6%, to about 2610. Britain's Exchequer Chancellor Roy Jenkins summed up the situation as "very calm, all very calm...
There are no charges of financial impropriety. When Ebert became a director last January, he owned about $15,000 worth of Squibb-Beech-Nut stock and was eligible for a yearly salary of several thousand dollars as a director...
...move on the part of the wax museum people to credit Texas with the War Between the States. But no one mentions this obvious fact.) General Johnston's uniform looks quite nice. Someone says so. President Jefferson Davis said of him, "His coming is worth more than the accession of an army...