Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...phone from his 44th birthday dinner, little Tsar Boris III of Bulgaria heard the voice of an old friend, Bulgarian-born Locomotive Engineer Gus Phillips of Falls City, Neb. Mr. Phillips had met the Tsar, an enthusiastic locomotive driver, on a trip to Bulgaria in 1932. After exchanging $31 worth of pleasantries, Tsar Boris rang off. Previous gifts that have passed between the Tsar and the Nebraska engineer include two miniature locomotives from Gus Phillips, 16 bottles of choice wine and a diamond stickpin from Tsar Boris...
...Pierson's main argument for donations was an echo of a frank and factful study of the contraceptive business which FORTUNE published last week. Deplored he: "The majority of married couples are forced to worry along with drugstore methods of contraception. Millions of dollars' worth of material-comprising 1,500 to 2,000 devices-are being distributed through drugstores, cosmetic shops, pool parlors, gas stations, house-to-house canvassers...
Young & lithe enough to be worth a dime of any man's dance money, Helen Abney, 1 8, taxi-danced three January nights running in a thronged Detroit hall until she was ready to drop. When she could not raise her head from her pillow one morning, she thought she was just tired. When chills & fever racked her and her bones ached, she thought she had grippe. A rash breaking out on her face suggested scarlet fever or chickenpox. When the red spots became elevated and exuded pus, there remained no doubt that dancing Helen Abney was afflicted with...
...When it was organized in 1929 by a bald Kansas farmer named Clarence Huff its capital-about $1,000,000-was entirely private. But various Government farm agencies immediately began to lend it money. When it was reorganized in 1936 there were $14,000.000 worth of Government loans to be canceled. It was then lent $7,500,000 more by the Farm Credit Administration. It was supposed to repay this sum by an assessment on every bushel of grain it sold for its members. The members objected...
When Farmers National first wanted a seat on Chicago's Board of Trade, members protested loudly. It finally got admitted by buying up a Nebraska company which was already a member. Now part of its assets are five memberships, worth some $3,000 apiece. The Farm Credit Administration a year ago took over most of its grain elevators. About all it has left is 3,000,000 bushels of wheat and almost 1,000.000 bushels of corn. This will be sold, said Farmer Horn, "in an orderly manner" during the next five or six months. The ten regional cooperatives...