Word: co
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increase in crime, together with a new insurance policy to cover an old racket, were last week announced by R. A. Algire, vice president of National Surety Co. ("We bond more people than any other company in the world.") In 1929, said Mr. Algire, surety companies collected 35 million dollars in premiums representing burglary, robbery and theft insurance to the amount of five billion dollars. New York State spent nine million and New York City $6,500,000 to buy crime insurance. Mr. Algire estimated that in 1930 the surety companies would pay out large claims, as he anticipated...
...home of the bank cashier, or other official, compel him to accompany them to the bank, to open the safe for them when the time-lock runs out. By the payment of a small extra premium, banks and businesses can protect themselves from such kidnap losses. National Surety Co. also wrote last week a suicide policy, said to be the first of its kind. A manufacturer (unspecified) wished to borrow $25,000 from his bank. As the business depended largely upon the well-being of the borrower, the bank wished to take over his insurance policy to protect itself...
...Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. went the $100.000 prize, and to the Federal Court in Brooklyn went Frederick Handley Page with a lawsuit for $300,000 (the prize money tripled), claiming that the Tanager's slotted wing was an infringement of his patent...
HAYDN'S QUARTET IN D MAJOR, by the Lener String Quartet of Budapest (Co- lumbia, $4.50)-The Leners play particularly the Largo with surpassing tenderness...
...mouths of pedagogs but from Edward A. Filene, Boston merchant (Wm. Filene's Sons Co.), charitarian, peace promoter, came a solution of pedagogical salary woes. Businessman Filene, whose who in Who's Who describes him as agitating to "increase wages and profits and raise the general standards of living," suggested a mild form of intellectual boycott. Said he, in a letter to the Association: "My hope is that our teachers will prove to be sufficiently selfish. Then it will be up to the colleges to find a way to keep them from accepting offers which they...