Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...large part of the $5,000 worth of valuables stolen from the Peabody Tercentenary Exhibit by Olesen has been returned, it was reported yesterday. The loot, which included 30 articles of gold, mostly, beads and amulets, was easily identified by the shops in which Olesen had sold it. Many of the stolen objects returned, however, had been either badly mutilated or melted down...
...reached by sinking a shaft straight down through rock undisturbed by the meteorite's passage, then drifting sidewise through the troublesome watery strata which were broken by the impact. Even if the meteoritic bodies weigh no more than a million tons, at present prices they should be worth...
...churches have establishments in China worth millions of dollars. Caught unawares by the current war, mission boards have been operating on an emergency basis, have been unable to formulate long-term policies. In general: 1) their missionaries are remaining at their posts or moving to areas where they may be especially useful; 2) their chief problems involve transportation and maintaining medical relief stations: 3) tHeir future problem is the incalculable one of restoring wrecked establishments. For their emergency needs, at least half-a-dozen of the principal U. S. churches have launched money-raising campaigns...
...Hammond, Ind., Max M. Nowak, after 35 years building up the retail feed business founded by his father, last year sold $1,500,000 worth of livestock feed. To do so, Max Nowak had to spend $7,008 in 1937 for clerical help, auditors and attorneys to make out 1,100 tax reports, to pay $20,000 in taxes to 28 States and the Federal Government. Said he last week as he sold out to Vitality Mills, Inc.: "It is not merely the amount of tax I have to pay. It's also the annoyance of having to report...
...Lowell, Mass., police halted Frank W. Shuflat, found him loaded down with $100 worth of merchandise, leading on a leash a docile police dog, watchdog of a restaurant he had just robbed...