Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Waltz King expects to take TV in his stride because "it is the most satisfying medium of production ever known. It puts a premium on sincerity and honesty." To achieve "sincerity," he will rely more on pantomimes for his oldtime songs than on vocalists ("After all, everybody knows the lyrics"). There will also be a good deal of folksy comment from the maestro ("Doggone, here I am jabbering away like . . . like . . . well, a magpie...
Curb Service. In Pompano, Fla., Samuel Bachinger, visiting an insurance broker to pay his automobile insurance premium, glanced out the window, saw a sign blow off the company's building and smack his Oldsmobile, promptly filed a claim...
...July the Continental Casualty Co. of Chicago began promoting a novel, simple insurance policy, exclusively for polio. The two-year premium: $5 for an individual, $10 for a family, with benefits up to $5,000 per case. Last week, Continental found that it had an underwriter's bestseller. It had taken in almost $1,000,000 (90% from family policies) and a polio-conscious public was expected to run the total to $3,000,000 by year...
...York City appealed for 200 graduate nurses for emergency polio duty in city hospitals at premium pay. With 362 cases in July and 209 in the last week, the city had what Health Commissioner Harry S. Mustard called "a mild epidemic." But he warned that with plenty of hot weather still to come, a heavy polio case load could be expected until well into September...
...Premium. In Brooklyn-Queens Night Court, York Deas explained that the betting slips found in his pocket must have come with the secondhand pants he bought the night before...