Word: worthlessness
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...they dropped. In Rome, housewives found that poultry, olive oil and sugar prices were down 20 to 50%; meat which had cost up to 900 lira a week before could be bought for under 500. Farmers, who had refused to sell their products when the lira was becoming more worthless every day, now hastened to unload as it increased in real value...
...sent an investigator hustling off to get the mink coat-he came back with an ermine wrap, too, that the state had overlooked. Then the city called in a furrier and triumphantly announced that the mink was worth a mere $300 and that the ermine was just a "worthless rag." Somehow this simply stirred things...
...only in Menjou, who admits knowing no Communist, worthless as a testifier, but the charges smack of the preposterous. The great bulk of American movies, present a glamourized version of what Louis B. Mayer calls, "the American way of life," almost always avoiding red hot political issues. The mass-production of wishful thinking and the reluctance to deal with controversial problems may themselves be an indictment against Hollywood, but that is not in Mr. Rankin's field...
...attract workers in a country that had three currencies, all of them worthless in native eyes (Dutch guilders, Japanese "banana money," Indonesian rupees), Gibbon paid his 4,000 laborers partly in food, partly in credits to be redeemed when the currency is stabilized...
...appears that Grandview is The Absolutely Average U.S. Community. The commercial and political implications of being dead average are, of course, enormous. With Jimmy's help, the town gets a swelled head and frantically markets its opinions, which soon become worthless. Eventually, Jimmy shames the financially ruined community into civic pride and resourceful action...