Word: worthing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Extended in a House-Senate compromise the Public Law 480 authority ($1.5 billion a year) to sell Government-owned surplus farm products abroad (often for soft currencies) for another two years. Authorized but not required: a start on an Administration-opposed food-stamp scheme for delivering $500 million worth of surplus to the U.S. needy...
...jostle for position in daily traffic jams, unheard of a few years ago. But outside Addis Ababa, 90% of Ethiopia's people are illiterate farmers, some of whom still live in a barter economy where 2 Ibs. of hand-picked wild coffee will fetch one fingernail's worth of nail polish. As a result of these feudal economics, 180 million acres of the world's richest farm land lie fallow in Ethiopia, despite periodic famines and a growing trade deficit. Foreign aid at best merely sugarcoats Ethiopia's deep-seated economic woes...
...gross proceeds of each loan. Sometimes, when an extraordinarily difficult piece of work is involved, he may raise his fee to 2% or more (the maximum: 5% of the amount of the loan). As a money finder he has done wonderfully well at finding money for himself. Worth more than $35 million, he has five cars, including a chauffered Rolls-Royce equipped with radiotelephone, a penthouse in Manhattan, a 13-acre country house at Amagansett, N.Y., his own game preserve and a $200,000 yacht...
...Dragon only suggests the measure of Poet Moore's true worth. She is mostly having fun, and so will most readers who admire a deft use of language, a faultless grip on verse technique, an underlying love for living things, in such playful lines...
...TRADE THAW by Commerce Department promises to increase U.S. exports to Russia. Decision to grant license to Omni Products Corp. to ship $1,000,000 worth of plastic-pipe production machinery to Russia is seen as part of move by Commerce Secretary Frederick Mueller to encourage individual trade deals...