Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor in 1934, he turned Democrat after losing the primary, won a place in Governor Earle's "Little New Deal." When he read in the Inquirer that his law partners were supposed to have sewed up several Pennsylvania counties on the basis of collecting back taxes for a worth-while percentage of the receipts, he declared: "I am not, nor ever have been, a party either directly or indirectly to any such plan . . . nor does any such plan exist," demanded from the Inquirer a full retraction unless it wanted to be sued for criminal libel...
...Howeson, the pepper trading was done through Bishirgian & Co. Messrs. Bishirgian & Howeson started to play the shellac market late in 1933, switched to white pepper in 1934 with the idea of cornering the world supply. By that summer the Howeson firm was loaded up with some $2,000,000 worth of shellac and about $5,000,000 worth of pepper-to be paid for in the future...
...four bags, the weight of which convinced the agents that their search was ended. Opened, the bags revealed a treasure in the form of $20 gold pieces. For three hours the agents counted, found 10,000 coins in the Josefowitz treasure trove. At present gold prices, the metal was worth about...
During this year Sears will buy nearly $375,000,000 worth of merchandise. Many months may elapse between the ordering of the goods and the time they finally move from the shelves. Sears may, for instance, order $1,000,000 worth of shoes in February which will not be sold until September. Meanwhile the price of hides may decline, consequently depressing shoe prices so that for its February order of shoes Sears will get only $900,000. Contrariwise, hide (and hence shoe) prices may rise, in which case Sears will make an extra and unexpected profit. In any event, Sears...
...importance in the November elections. As the spear point of the counterattack, Representative Bell could afford to take the risk of sponsoring the Townsend inquiry because back of him in Kansas City is Boss Tom Pendergast with his redoubtable political machine. To other Congressmen their lesser risk seemed well worth taking: Jasper Bell, at the worst, would probably be able to discredit the Townsend Plan by showing that a lot of oldsters' dues money was going down a hopeless drain...