Word: worthes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Japanese once again pointed out to Sir Robert that the 48,000,000 Chinese dollars (worth approximately $4,300,000 last week) still held by Chinese and foreign banks inside the Concession, originally belonged to the North China Government at Peking. In 1935, when the Central Government at Nanking reformed its finances on the advice of Britain's Economic Adviser Sir Frederick Leith-Ross, it requested that the independent North China Government give up the money. Peking refused, kept the money in Tientsin. The money was therefore never Chinese but North Chinese, argued the Japanese...
...help. When Allied purchasing agents in the U. S. began fruitlessly bidding against one another, the Morgans became central purchasing agent to the Allies, and Morgan Partner Edward R. Stettinius (whose Son Edward was to become chairman of U. S. Steel 21 years later) bought $3,000,000,000 worth of U. S. goods for shipment to England and France...
...incredulity. M.G.M.'s wisdom in lending Actor Tracy for his part appears when he delivers, to the jeering Royal Society of Geographers, a four-minute speech that is not only one of the longest but perhaps the most eloquent in cinema history, sounds as if it might be worth a trophy case of Academy Oscars. Excellent shots: Stanley foiling a host of murderous native warriors with a brush fire; Dr. Livingstone gaily leading his jungle Sunday school in a rendition of Onward, Christian Soldiers...
...from the University of Toronto, lesser sums from the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Western Ontario in London. "Numerous private collectors have standing offers in for it," said Dr. Smith, "but only one man has come close." Speculator Smith decided his prize was worth $10 a pound, demanded $800 or more...
...salary ($51,777), it could be calculated that the road has to haul 6,472,125 tons of average freight a mile. Considering the fact that L. & N. has made money year after year while most other Class I roads are in the soup, he is doubtless worth...