Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gold-mining industry, just getting back on its feet from the war slowdown. And it might hit the tourist trade, which annually pours some $150,000,000 into Canada. U.S. tourists will no longer get $1.10 for their U.S. dollars. But if fewer tourists come because of the lost premium, Canada will lose some badly needed dollar exchange...
...Smith* of Arlington, Va., is the budget director of her family. A few weeks ago, she went to her husband with a sheaf of bills and a realization that had her close to tears: the Smith family could not make ends meet much longer. There was the big insurance premium, and the mortgage payment. Everything was so high, and now that the four children were older, expenses would be higher than ever...
...used car lots the over-ceiling premium bought a jack, an extra battery, a blanket-at $100 and up. In Oklahoma City, a dealer had a tired hunting hound which he habitually sold-along with a car. The hound dog always shuffled back...
...which the tutorial system rests, any question of a sufficiency or insufficiency of funds, or of the ability of some students to absorb anything from the tutorial method, is de trop without first a thorough overhauling of the guiding standards of the ad hoc committee. Unless a higher premium is placed on good teaching, the tutorial system can only continue to dissatisfy an increasing number of students and Faculty...
...everything else was just as greedily snapped up. The advertising manager of one store grumbled: "We can't keep stuff long enough to work up an ad." Customers even waited patiently in stores for goods to come in. Easter outfits were at a premium from coast to coast, with sky-high prices no deterrent...