Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Other nations are beginning to consider it worth their while to talk with us as equals, now that we are again armed and powerful," frankly said Hjalmar Schacht to Belgian reporters...
...Adore fell his 72-year-old mother into Santa Monica harbor, whence she was rescued by her son who dived in fully clothed. Treated for shock and exposure, Mrs. Tracy was removed to her Beverly Hills apartment, where three days later the gas heater caught fire, burned up $250 worth of her clothing...
...latest move in the simplification program is to lump the same Hearst Consolidated properties, with one exception-the profitable New York Evening Journal-in a wholly-owned subsidiary called Hearst Publications, Inc., which now proposes to offer $22,500,000 worth of bonds to the public. Nearly all the proceeds will be used to pay off bank loans and refund old bond issues, many carrying William Randolph Hearst's personal guarantee...
Symbolic was the fact that last week the first freighter out of Duluth carried not ore but scrap iron. Since mining began in the Superior region, more than $3,000,000,000 worth of ore from the Mesabi alone has been transformed into the iron & steel of heavy industry. In 1929 the U. S. Bureau of Mines estimated that if ore continued to move out of the Lake Superior region at the rate of 65,204,600 tons a year, all the high-grade ore in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan would be exhausted in about 37 years. That rate fell...
...shipbuilders of the Lakes are the Manitowoc Shipbuilding Corp. of Manitowoc, Wis., and American Shipbuilding Co. with yards at Lorain, Ohio. Called the "Clipper Town" in sailing days, Manitowoc has turned out $20,000,000 worth of shipping since the present company was founded in 1904, is now engaged on a $1,250,000 tanker for Standard Oil of Indiana. Soon after May 1, American Shipbuilding Co. will lay keels for two 600-ft. freighters, first to be built on the Lakes in six years...