Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committee, Mr. Willkie gave a vivid picture of what utilities, and utility investors, are up against. If subsidized low TVA rates and the "brutal doctrine of Chattanooga" forced utilities to sell out to the Government, their troubles only began. Mr. Willkie, for instance, thought Tennessee Electric Power Co. was worth $120,000,000; TVA was offering $65,000,000. If any public purchaser disliked the utilities' price, bitterly protested Wendell Willkie, it could set up a duplicating system with PWA funds, getting 45% of the money as a gift and borrowing the rest at low interest. Pointing out that...
...Cuevas, daughter of his eldest daughter Bessie, who died before Rockefeller divided his wealth among his children. Heroically singleminded, he showed no attachment to the things money can buy. He sold his New Jersey and Florida estates to his son for good cash prices, retained only $179,971 worth of miscellaneous property. Samples: $150 worth of lawn furniture, a $45 gold watch, a dozen cocktail glasses ($6), a dozen champagne tumblers ($30), an incomplete set of china ($600). In 97 years Rockefeller accumulated very little to which his heirs assigned no value. But they wrote off 27,733 shares...
...interstate mains in the old Spanish pit-was the mecca for cocking fans. Today the No. 1 event is the $8,000, four-day Orlando Tournament, held the last week in January. The tournament is open to any reputable cocker who thinks his batch of birds are worth risking the $500 entrance fee. Only 16 entries are accepted, however, the 16 owners each entering 15 cocks-one for each of the 15 regulation weight divisions ranging, in two-ounce jumps, from...
...Odets has gained and held a public that, by & large, does not share his Leftish ideas is obviously not the ideas themselves but his rich, compassionate, angry feeling for people, his tremendous dramatic punch, his dialogue, bracing as ozone. In every Odets play, regardless of its theme or its worth, at least once or twice during the evening every spectator feels that a fire hose has been turned on his body, that a fist has connected with his chin...
Genial General Robert E. Wood explained Sears, Roebuck & Co.'s similar plan. Its employe fund now holds $42,600,000 worth of securities, all Sears, Roebuck stock, making the employe fund the largest single interest in the company...