Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...course cargo space in the Atlantic Clippers is at such a tremendous premium that our allotment is for only 200 pounds once a week-and so we cannot send nearly enough copies to satisfy the demand. But we print a special lithographed edition on flyweight paper in a third plant just outside New York City (our two main plants are in Chicago and Philadelphia)-and we leave out most of the ads and use special light-weight binding staples-and one way or another we get the weight down to one-third as much as a regular copy of TIME...
Hundred-Tonners. A WPB air-cargo committee has explored the possible construction of 100-ton winged trucks. The Department of Commerce wants 800 all-steel freighters (stainless steel is still at a premium). The Army has contracted for lots of DC-3s, hundreds of 25-ton Curtiss twin-engined troop-toting Commandos...
Life-insurance salesmen worked harder than ever the first half of 1942, sold 8 to 10% more insurance than ever before, boosted the annual rate of premium payments $175,000,000 to an alltime high well over...
...Tobruk? In his humble vein, Winston Churchill confirmed the general diagnosis that Tobruk had fallen because the German High Command outsmarted the British, and because German equipment was better (TIME, July 6)-partly excusing it on the ground that quick manufacturing for British Isles defenses had put the premium in British material on quantity rather than quality. Many were his revelations, intentional or otherwise, of British military naivete...
...policies, particularly in inland sections where bombing seems doubly unlikely; but mortgage holders were getting set to put the heat on them to sign up regardless. Whether lenders had any right to demand such protection was a doubtful legal question. In England the mortgage holder has to share the premium costs on domestic war-damage protection...