Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...murder becomes known, action will not be long delayed. Advertisements will appear in papers--"Wanted policemen. No redheads need apply". Banks will scour the country for nice looking messengers. Mexicans will choose nice looking hombres for presidents and bandit leaders. In fact all collar models will be at a premium, but as for the rest, Heaven help the hideous...
...transfering H. A. A. tickets or allowing any tickets to be sold at a premium, the penalty is blacklisting...
...spoke to other officials of the matter. The passports of the 50 Poles were reexamined and found to be clever forgeries. It was discovered that the Poles had all bought their fake passports from a combine which gave away, as a premium with each purchase, a new union suit. Thus did an eye for union suits uncover a dastardly conspiracy...
...difference was a difference in immigration laws. The superseded law placed a premium on pushing in as soon as the clock struck twelve for the beginning of a new immigration year. The present law says : "Get a certificate before you start and come over at your leisure." The result is less rush, less hardship, less danger...
...same time, the British insurance companies, wishing to give a clear sign of their good-will toward those who were insured against the ordinary risk of fire, and of sympathy for those who suffered losses, have decided to return to the insurees a full year's premium. This payment will, in the aggregate, represent a very substantial sum. The form which the return of the premiums will take will probably be that of willingness to cancel the payments due on the policies affected...