Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...both ushers and ticket takers, the rule as to the personal use of football tickets will be waived. However, the responsibility for proper use still remains with the applicant. This means that tickets cannot bbe sold at a premium, or to outsiders...
Special provisions for cases of exceptional hardship merely added to the confusion. Most of the litigation centred around the complex problem of evaluating "invested capital." Carter Glass, McAdoo's successor, summarized the tax when he recommended its repeal in 1919: "It encourages wasteful expenditure, puts a premium on overcapitalization and a penalty on brains, energy and enterprise, discourages new ventures and confirms old ventures in their monopolies...
...scramble for mountaintops, high buildings. Since the power of an FM transmitter increases with height, the spread of FM broadcasting is expected to put a premium on lofty locations. Prize location in Manhattan is the Empire State Building, in which Major Edwin Howard Armstrong, FM deviser, experimented until RCA booted him out to make way for television...
Less fierce than the Comanches or the Shawnees, they were by no means timid. They spent four days of dancing with clayed faces, of solemn Homeric boasting, building up to war. Scalps were the premium, but the glory was in guile, and a leader was less honored for scalps than for bringing back his own warriors alive. Their religion and their warfare were profoundly related; one of Tixier's most moving passages tells of the last solemn ceremonies with the warbirds. Their apathy in easy times, their resourcefulness and stamina under stress were both beyond the measure of white...
...free speech again and again. By appointing men, who have aroused general public resentment, to teach, Harvard can only encourage scholars to hide behind the free speech cry rather than to stand on their merits as good citizens when seeking appointment. To appoint Russell is to put a premium on moral eccentricity rather than scholarship. There are many able men, fully as able as Russell and much less biased, who could give these lectures. To appoint Russell under these conditions is to hire an ax-grinder and lose an educator. Howard L. Beer...