Word: worthlessness
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...Atoms. Florida's real−and least expected−source of wealth is just now being discovered. Long considered poor in basic raw materials, the state has been finding uses for things that once were considered worthless. Around Jacksonville, two companies are mining ilmenite and rutile, from which the wonder metal titanium is produced. To the south, near Fort Myers, an oilfield is producing commercially. Oil was also found last month in a new area not far away. To the north, slash pine is feeding the paper and chemical industries. In the Everglades, Newport Industries and other companies...
...muscle. Even the clock seems sleepy after I throw it on the pile of dirty clothes in the corner. On the desk, which is bare and cleared for action, lies a little paper book which purports to discuss Science, Socialism and a Static Society. I knew it was worthless last night, but I felt so exploited I just had to get something out of the building. Now, too late, I see the sticker on the cover, Desk 3, and I know the cost of living has just gone up fifty cents an hour...
...good deal about the new, tougher approach the President plans to take toward Congress to get this program passed. We hope he will not fail in is second year as he has in his first. But success will only come from the realization that all Eisenhower's popularity is worthless unless put to some positive purpose...
Troops that can be called up in five or six months, he insists, are next to worthless. "If we can't do better than that, well then, we're wasting our money. A small, tough shield in front, big reserves behind, which are organized-properly organized-and the war is won. Mind you, not by the active forces you keep up in peacetime, but by the nation in arms behind the shield. . ." Through caustic, he is also confident. "My view," he says, "is that the danger of premeditated-the word is important-war has been pushed back, largely...
...effective, such a system must be completely removed from the insecurity of legislative machination, and its benefits must be sizable. Stripped of the stabilizing fund, linked to the yearly whims of Congressional budget makers, and providing only token benefits, the system proposed by the Chamber of Commerce is worthless...