Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Britain has held the line through the shrewd use of subsidies. Under them the Government pays a premium for increased production without directly penalizing the lowincome, consumer (although other consumers, as taxpayers, pay in the end). The Ministry of Food buys up most of the supply of some goods, for instance, then distributes them at a loss. Subsidy has been relatively easy in Britain because she imports so many raw materials. Canada has also successfully applied the subsidy system to tea, coffee, oranges and other staples...
...land and some equipment. His brother Russell, 40, had $1,500 cash. They bought 1,200 hens. Today they have 60,000 pullets and hens, occupy 1,400 acres, employ 55 people, are capitalized at $250,000, produce 30,000 eggs a day, ten million eggs a year, get premium prices. Last year they grossed...
...increased. Göring's Luftwaffe had failed to twist the neck of the thunderbird that nested in England and clawed at Kiel, Antwerp, Cologne, Paris, Essen, Berlin. Some 90,000 people had been, removed from industrial Essen's shattered, scattered homes. War labor was at a premium; war widows were ordered into the factories...
...There were nationwide complaints of a special shortage in the field of physical science, physics and chemistry teachers. While war put a premium on the study of these subjects, and classes grew in proportion, war also drew the teachers...
Morals. South Carolina's statesmen issued a 971-page report alleging sexual irregularities in prisons, the most voluminous publication in the South since Gone With the Wind. Limited to 470 copies, it is already at a premium...