Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Edgar also took steps to stop the $30-3-ton premium on steel which K-F has been paying. He made a deal to finance the building of a new open-hearth furnace for Republic Steel, buy all the output for five years at market prices. Under the agreement, Republic would continue to sublet the blast furnace at Cleveland which K-F had leased from the Government (TIME, Sept. 6), thus ending a squabble between the two companies and the War Assets Administration...
Daniels Pile. Admittedly, the Manhattan District had been over-optimistic in its prediction. When it plunged into the power project two years ago, no one had made more than a start on any of the major technical problems. Skilled scientists and industrial engineers were at a premium. But the Army had a mild, sharp-nosed little chemistry professor named Farrington Daniels, who took on the job of designing a full-sized nuclear reactor to produce power. By mid-1947, Daniels and his team were well into the vast problems confronting them. They reported that the basic difficulties should be solved...
...Shakeup. Ford also denied the possibility of a slump: "How can you be pricing yourself out of the market when your car is selling in used-car lots at a premium of from $500 to $1,000?" But Ford's own figures showed that each new price boost caused a significant shakeup in orders-with prospective Lincoln buyers shifting to Mercurys, Mercury prospects to Fords, Ford customers to used cars...
Closing date for purchases is Saturday, May 15, the business board reported, adding that after that date the Albums will be available only at a premium. The CRIMSON Business Office, 14 Plympton Street, will handle all sales...
...mound after a forced absence last year when he was declared ineligible by Ivy League officials. Also returning is fireman Ira Godin, who started or came in to save many a game for the 1947 Crimson squad, and Landon Clay. Receivers for these moundsmen will be at a premium--at least ones as good as the graduated Bill Hamlen--but Cliff Crosby and Web Durant are attempting to fill the bill...