Word: premium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...came from the U.S. Having persistently warned Peru's military of the consequences of a coup, the U.S. suspended relations, stopped $81 million in Alliance aid, cut off military aid now running at $5,000,000 a year, and threatened as well to take away Peru's premium-priced U.S. sugar quota, amounting to $19 million a year. "A serious setback" to democracy, said President Kennedy, in an unusually vigorous White House statement. The generals were reported planning to send a mission to Washington to explain everything. Said Perez Godoy: "I know that President Kennedy can understand. What...
...typical bustling Midwestern market city. The one thing that makes Bloomington a bit different from the run-of-the-mill county seat is the presence of its largest employer, the State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. This week State Farm will report that its premium income for the first half of this year was up nearly 11% to $281 million, and that in May the company signed up its seven millionth policyholder. All this handily helped State Farm hold its rank as the world's largest automobile insurance company...
Today, as a result, State Farm insures one U.S. private passenger car in eight, has created subsidiary life, fire and accident companies that last year added $87 million in premium income. The $5,000,000 annual rental that State Farm pays for the computers to handle its paperwork makes it one of IBM's biggest customers...
...annual general revenues of the Federal Government. The new bill also, to soften conservative opposition, provides an option recommended by New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller: a social security beneficiary would have a choice between accepting the Government benefits or having the Government contribute toward the premium on a private health insurance plan providing equal benefits-but only if the beneficiary had been enrolled in such a private plan for a specified period before becoming eligible for social security...
...entry Point. Among the stamp savers is Mrs. E.F. MacDonald, who refuses to stop at a service station that does not offer stamps, assiduously fills her books to redeem for Christmas presents. Though he himself could bring home the same premiums at wholesale cost, his wife's habit delights the Scots heart of Mac MacDonald, for whom premiums are a way of life. A rotund, robust optimist, MacDonald started his business career with a small Dayton firm selling luggage as contest prizes for salesmen. By expanding the company's premium line and concentrating on Detroit's automakers...