Word: price
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...life subscriptions? Why not sell your subscribers Subscription Bonds?" The amount of seventy dollars, named in the sample bond enclosed, is fixed on the supposition that the money invested with you can be made to pay 5% with safety, and that you can afford to make a subscription price of $3.50 to these subscribers. The rate of interest on the bonds, and the subscription price to them, would have to be determined and the amount of the bond fixed in accordance with the facts...
Sirs: A Life Actuary could readily compute a fair price based on Mortality and Experience Tables, as the average life time - expectancy - should serve as a sound basis for a Life Subscription Rate. The Tables are averages which produce a reasonable margin of profit to a Life Insurance Company; used by TIME, they should result similarly. On the other hand, if one's age determines the rate, you would be at the mercy of the sub scriber, as his honesty might make you, his dishonesty break you. L. G. WELCHER...
...They are in Utah. From one Utah well 3.6% helium can be isolated from the natural gases, from another 7.07%. This is unusual richness. The Government well at Amarillo, Tex., yields but 1.7%, the Helium Co.'s well at Dexter, Kan., 2.4%. A result is that the price of helium gas may be reduced from $35 to about...
Soon it was learned that Liberal Lloyd George was demanding three things as the price of his supporting either of the big parties...
Last week U. S. granaries grew greater and greater with stored wheat. U. S. wheat markets went through heavy liquidation. U. S. wheat dropped below 95? per bushel, lowest price since 1923, and as low as the lowest low since the War. In recent years dollar wheat has been an ebbtide mark, a symptom of a demoralized market, a text for sermons on overproduction and the farmer. But last week dollar wheat would have been good news: 90? wheat seemed to be the new low level for which crop prices were heading...