Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...they needed on the Exchange. On the other hand, a few speculators bought bonds, not intending to keep them, but to sell out at a profit as soon as possible. As a result of the dealers' demand, prices for bonds on the Exchange at once went to a premium over the subscription price of 92; indeed, at one time they sold over 95. Such a premium on bonds just floated is rare, and indicates better than anything else the popularity of the issue with U. S. investors...
...timid by the expressive sweetness of their countenances, and rewarded us musicians by their approving smiles.--'Who that hath a heart, is free from vanitye?'" On another occasion the music was not up to the usual standard because "the Ladies, whom the club principally wishes to serve, the premium mobile of our music, were few in number...
...rumor is in circulation that the Fogg Art Museum is to be torn down on grounds of future uselessness. In spite of the wide difference of opinion which exists on the architectural merits of the building, it is hard to believe, when space for special facilities is at a premium, that such an idea can be seriously entertained...
...countries whose currencies are not on a gold basis, and not at par with dollars, a premium is consequently placed upon gold production. This is largely the reason for the record gold production of the African Transvaal field. In July last, the Rand produced 829,437 ounces of gold, the highest output for a single month on record...
Ordinarily the African gold output is sent to London where it is exported to the highest bidder. Owing to the premium on the gold dollar in foreign exchange over the paper pound sterling, the flow of gold from London has been mainly to this country...