Word: premium
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...period are not likely to be forgotten and the fact that many of our mistakes arose from a failure to prepare for a long war is now acting as a brake on our overseas expenditure, where such expenditure involves the purchase of currencies standing at a premium to sterling; though from every point of view our economic position is far stronger today than it was in 1914. This applies to France as well...
...latest would run, whether or not Adolf Hitler would strike. Last week Lloyd's offered a brand new type of insurance: against death or injuries inflicted on the King's civilian subjects by the King's military enemies. Rate for this air-raid insurance: ?1 of premium for every ?100 of insurance. Rate for London is the same as that for Leeds or Rosyth or Dover or anywhere else; i.e., Lloyd's thinks that the attack, when it comes, may be general, not just local showers...
...into business Jan. 1 with some 100 stations. All last week at The Blackstone in Chicago, the lure of Elliott's name, plus the promise of some 60 hours a week of steady if cut-rate business, kept customers coming. B-S-H had already contracted for 15 premium night-time hours a week; Emerson Radio & Phonograph Corp. scheduled its noisy commentator, Elliott Roosevelt himself, on Transcontinental. Dorothy Thompson was courted; Boake Carter and Father Coughlin were possibilities. There were no such headliners as Jack Benny, Charlie McCarthy or Kate Smith in sight, but Transcontinental had hope. At week...
TIME, I fear, has fallen prey to a widely circulated fiction that the world's first commercial oil field is depleted whereas all the facts show that it remains the principal storehouse upon which the nation must draw for its premium automotive and aeronautic lubricants...
...loss of first-line combat planes in the first months of fighting is expected by the U. S. Air Corps if ever its new armada flies to war.* Such appalling losses put a premium upon a vast reserve of pilots. Last week the non-military Civil Aeronautics Authority took a long step to increase that reserve: it certified 220 U. S. colleges and universities for participation in its pilot-training program, prepared to name still more to share $5,675,000 voted by Congress for schooling 11,000 new fliers this year...