Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...morning last October an issue of 6% Baldwin bonds was selling on the New York Curb Exchange at a premium of 11? on the dollar. Without warning, the Baldwin directors suddenly announced that interest payments, not on the bonds publicly held, but on those in the sinking fund, would be suspended. On that first admission of financial difficulties, Baldwin's 6% bonds took a deep nose-dive that carried them down 34 points in three days to 77? on the dollar...
...addition to the few smash hits, for which it is not always easy to obtain tickets without paying a premium, there are a host of good plays, funny plays, thrilling plays, for which tickets are to be had and which are certain to provide a satisfying evening in the theatre...
...Augusta, Helena, Jefferson City, Salem, Pierre, Tallahassee or any other State capital is generally to be found a low, musty, old-fashioned hotel with a stuffed elk's head and plenty of spittoons in the lobby. If the Legislature is in session rooms there will be at a premium. The capital may have a newer and swankier hotel, built between 1924 and 1929, but the farmers, the smalltown lawyers, the minor merchants who compose the bulk of State legislatures are not interested in swank. All they want for their short, frequent sessions is a cheap (about $1.50), convenient...
Thus in practice all "insurance" plans have much in common. In England the premium paid to the insurance fund is 2s 6d (60?) per week for adult men; in Wisconsin it is 2% of payrolls. In Ohio 3% was proposed. When a man becomes unemployed there is a "waiting period" before benefits begin: in England six days; in Wisconsin two weeks; under the Ohio plan three weeks. Then the unemployed, having registered at an official employment office, begin to draw benefits: in England 15s 3d ($3.81) per week; in Wisconsin 50% of weekly wages but not less than...
This fall the school has 208 part time and full time students, 126 men and 82 women, as compared with an equal number of both last year. Mr. Smith, the School's Registrar, reports that the depression has put a premium on good training, and that those who face the future by training now will find it greatly to their advantage...