Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant will restrict his speech somewhat to the present and a justification and explanation of the worth of United States, but prophecy will, however, occupy part of the address, and Mr. Conant will touch on academic freedom and the quest of truth...
...wisdom the standard of excellence in the arts?" is the paraphrased title of tonight's talk. Mr. Frost believes that there are four fundamental classes of poets, those who value poetry for its linguistic or purely technical content, those who find its worth chiefly in its character as a historical document, those who use the manifestation of wisdom as a poetic criterion, and lastly, those who find the philosophy in poetry its most valuable element...
Homestake's boom began mildly in 1927, when better grades of ore were unearthed and gold recovery per ton started to rise sharply. A ton of the ore was worth $4.50 in 1929, $7 in 1932, $9 in 1933. When the price of gold jumped through the Roosevelt hoop, emerging at $35 an ounce, returns per ton rose further, and now average nearly $14. Homestake's per share earnings went up from $2.23 in 1926 to $9.94 in 1932, $19.94 in 1933, $28.29 in 1934. Last year they jumped again to $32.43 per share. Dividends have swelled from...
...widow, Phoebe Apperson Hearst, and after 1914 by her cousin's son, retiring Edward Hardy Clark, who is still president, Homestake was for years a pillar of the Hearst fortune. "W. R.'s" block, now estimated at 14,000 of the original 42,000 Hearst shares, is worth about $7,000,000, yields an annual income...
...submitted his scheme for electronic television, no blueprints. When radio engineers assured Mr. Everson that the Farnsworth idea seemed feasible, he put up money for experiments, got addi tional backing from officials of San Fran cisco's Crocker First National Bank. Hard-working young Farnsworth twice threw equipment worth $25,000 out the window, started over again. Finally successful demonstrations were made at Phila delphia's Franklin Institute. Philco Radio &; Television Corp. bought U. S. rights (not exclusive) to manufacture Farns worth equipment, has lately started an experimental laboratory...