Word: pers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...July the Continental Casualty Co. of Chicago began promoting a novel, simple insurance policy, exclusively for polio. The two-year premium: $5 for an individual, $10 for a family, with benefits up to $5,000 per case. Last week, Continental found that it had an underwriter's bestseller. It had taken in almost $1,000,000 (90% from family policies) and a polio-conscious public was expected to run the total to $3,000,000 by year...
Coar charges Congressmen $3.50 per recording. He has built up an impressive list of regular customers. Washington's Senator Harry Cain (who once pepped up some of his records with American folk songs from the Library of Congress) sends out 38 copies of his weekly platter. Pennsylvania's Ed Martin uses 74 every two weeks. Ohio's Robert Taft is good for 39 a week...
From Buenos Aires last fortnight, TIME Correspondent Robert Neville cabled that he would be filing an important story. In Argentina's Chamber of Deputies, Radical opponents of President Juan Perón's regime had made some sensational charges-that Perón's police force, augmented by hundreds of ex-Nazi soldiers, was torturing and brutalizing political prisoners. But Neville's story never reached TIME, nor did TIME's urgent "What happened?" messages reach Correspondent Neville. Last week, the explanation came...
...Nebraska and other regions that produce alfalfa seed, wild bees are getting scarcer. In recent years, the yield of seed per acre has been steadily going down. Dr. Hixson has been crossing alfalfa strains, breeding them for gentleness of pistil. He hopes to develop flowers with so soft a wallop that even the timidest bee will not be afraid to alight on them...
Soldiers at nearby Fort Belvoir were already excited over the house. Woods had said that he would build 42 altogether, and sell them for $40 to $45 per month with no down payment...