Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...begin with, the Harvard scribe faces the unpleasant task of writing about people whom he must face across the breakfast table the next day. This puts a premium on the ability to sugarcoat the English language to the point where a three-base error becomes merely a tough break. But even kindness of this sort is not enough to placate your athletes-critics, who constantly stantly try to corrupt your attempts to "Write 'em as you see 'em" by burdening you with their side of the story. This has even been carried to the point where a team-mate...
...Buick convertible, which he bought six months ago, from $3,295 to $2,395-and he still had it. Not long ago he sold "new-used" Packards for $200 above list price; now he is getting $800 below list. Among 1949 cars, only the Chevrolet still commanded a premium (about $300) over list price. Many a lot was loaded with heavier, costlier cars, hard to move at any price...
...college tennis today and of course will be a decided favorite to beat the up-and-down Crimson. Harvard this season has played well against such weaker rivals as, BU, BC, and Columbia, but when it meets a team of decidedly more experience Crimson points are at a premium...
History is a subject which still puts a premium on the memory. If you have a reasonably good one, if you can read a book and digest it--history isn't an awfully hard field. The biggest thing history has to offer is considerable range and freedom of choice. Six courses are all that are needed for concentration...
There were even some price cuts. The first postwar dip in the price of zinc (from 17½? to 16? a Ib.) was quickly passed on with lower prices on galvanized steel products. What few premium prices remained were gradually being dropped. Henry Kaiser cut the price of steel from his Fontana, Calif, plant $10 to $39 a ton, thereby wiping out increases made last August...