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Word: lifes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...make a suggestion as to a plan for life subscriptions? Why not sell your subscribers Subscription Bonds?" The amount of seventy dollars, named in the sample bond enclosed, is fixed on the supposition that the money invested with you can be made to pay 5% with safety, and that you can afford to make a subscription price of $3.50 to these subscribers. The rate of interest on the bonds, and the subscription price to them, would have to be determined and the amount of the bond fixed in accordance with the facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Sirs: A Life Actuary could readily compute a fair price based on Mortality and Experience Tables, as the average life time - expectancy - should serve as a sound basis for a Life Subscription Rate. The Tables are averages which produce a reasonable margin of profit to a Life Insurance Company; used by TIME, they should result similarly. On the other hand, if one's age determines the rate, you would be at the mercy of the sub scriber, as his honesty might make you, his dishonesty break you. L. G. WELCHER...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...Aetna Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

...transportation. Beside their gigantic task, Hoover's Food Distributing job was simply a well-paid outing. And they did their work without any front page headlines or political ballyhoo. 'l think Herbert Hoover and Sinclair Lewis the two most overrated, overadvertised and disappointing men in American public life today...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 17, 1929 | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

Japanese Ambassador M. Katsuji Debuchi, a true diplomat striving always to comprehend and reflect U. S. life. Short, plump, all smiles, he prides himself on his easy colloquial English...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dry Diplomacy | 6/17/1929 | See Source »

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