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Whitlock added that although the $2.6 million figure was "ridiculous" for the 62,000 sq. ft. plot, Harvard would be willing to pay a "premium price." He noted that Cambridge City Manager John J. Curry '19 had once mentioned $1 million as such a price...
...inflation and foreign debt, the dynamics of its basically rich wheat-and-beef economy are carrying the country along. Exports this year are expected to exceed imports by $350 million to $600 million-from bumper wheat and meat sales to Western Europe and Red China. Going for Illia are premium beef prices and one of the best wheat crops in history. In La Pampa province alone, wheat farmers this season have harvested 796,000 tons v. 5,300 tons during last year's searing drought. At long last, the cost-of-living spiral is leveling off (down 1.3% last...
INSURANCE companies generally tap salesmen, lawyers or investment specialists to become their presidents. Gilbert W. Fitzhugh is one of the few actuaries heading a large firm, but his happens to be the biggest: the venerable, 96-year-old Metropolitan Life. Last week President Fitzhugh announced a 1963 premium income of $2.8 billion and $7.5 billion worth of new insurance issued, which keeps Metropolitan well ahead of runner-up Prudential. The Metropolitan's insurance in force ($106.5 billion) covers 44.5 million people. One life-insurance policyholder (for $500,000) is Fitzhugh, 54, who by his own tables enjoys a life...
Owen tries hard to isolate the virus of his impulsive truth telling. He recognizes that his devious life had put such a premium on lying that he often felt like a stand-in character for himself. Further, he had developed over the years an intense desire to be known and understood fully by others. The contagion of honesty proves as ruinous in business as in love...
...thus carry goods at almost any rate they please. Their motives are far more political than economic. They seek political prestige by showing their flags on the world's seaways, and are glad to get badly needed foreign exchange even if the state has to pay a premium...