Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feed-grade barley, put much of Canada's barley in that class by forbidding farmers to clean a lush wild-oats crop out of the grain. The ruling deprived U.S. brewers of a large part of their No. 2 source of barley, Canadian prairie farmers of the tidy premium they get for sales to U.S. brewers...
...Corp. has designed and plans to market a peach de-fuzzing machine. The fuzz from the peaches, wafted by compressed air through a vent in the top of the machine, will become goofer feathers (to be thrown away). But the de-fuzzed peaches are expected to sell at a premium of $1 a box. (Cost of de-fuzzing...
...rice (average price-$7.72 per 100 Ibs.). Harwell was granted the higher ceiling for his special type several months ago, over the opposition of other millers. But with the greater capacity and efficiency of the new plant he hopes the price will soon be lowered. The Army thinks the premium a small one to pay to give the G.I. relief from dehydrated vegetables...
...Canadian farmers the deal opened the prospect of a fine postwar market. If Canadian beef can please the British palate, postwar shipments can be delivered in ten days or less. Such express shipments need only be chilled, not frozen. Canadian beef could command a fresh-meat premium price over Argentina's frozen product...
Tables at steel and concrete structures like the Ritz and Dorchester were at a premium, though there was an unaccustomed amount of foot room around the bars of the less durable pubs. Long before dark, queues of mothers and children waited outside tube entrances, carrying bundles of food and bedding. For U.S. soldiers, waiting in shelters was a new experience, but the kids' underground question was no different from the street-level question: "Got any gum, Yank...