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...Borrowed Capital. The co-op members complained that they had to pay auto-insurance rates as high as those of city drivers, although they diri most of their driving on safer country roads. So, with $10,000 borrowed from the federation and pledges from members for 1,000 policies, Lincoln started a mutual auto-insurance company as a private enterprise. It was a success from the start, and later began selling policies to city people, too. It now operates in 13 states and the District of Columbia, ranks fourth among all U.S. auto insurers, second among mutuals. As chief lure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INSURANCE: Man with a Mission | 8/17/1953 | See Source »

...present bizarre, not to say impossible, form, it provides only "nonsense syllables" for the singers. Thus the basses open by chanting "easygoingly but richly," in the following language: "Ta da di da ra da da." The tenors enter with "Dum pum pum pum ti di diri diri"; then the ladies: "Tara dira dara diri didi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nonsense Syllables | 5/12/1924 | See Source »

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