Word: premiums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...side and had talked to Mack about the bitterly fought case. ¶In 1953 Whiteside gave Mack, then a member of the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, a one-sixth interest in an insurance agency. Later, under the firm name Stembler-Shelden, it sold an insurance policy (premium: $20,000) to the National Airlines' TV subsidiary. There were no written records of Mack's interest in the agency, said Whiteside. It was all done by "orally declared trust . . . We in the firm understood that when Mr. Mack's public-service career was finished that he would...
...Minister T. T. Krishnamachari, and one of Nehru's pet Socialist projects, the newly nationalized Life Insurance Corp. The scandal broke last November when Nehru's son-in-law, Feroze Gandhi,* rose in Parliament and asked the minister a pointed question: Had the new corporation used the premium payments of India's 5,500,000 life-insurance policyholders to buy up shares at above-market prices in companies controlled by a notorious stock speculator named Haridas Mundhra...
...through 3.8 milligrams of nicotine, 22 milligrams of tar v. 3 milligrams of nicotine, 22 milligrams of tar for unfiltered king-size Chesterfield. The percentages are similar for Marlboro, Viceroy, Tareyton, Parliament and the rest of the popular filters. Net effect: "The public has paid premium prices of 2? to 6? per pack . . . for 'protection' they did not receive...
...oranges, grapefruit and tangerines has been cut back to 119,400,000 boxes. Federal and state laws prohibit selling as fresh any fruit that falls to the ground, but some growers hid damaged fruit under a layer of good fruit to smuggle it past inspectors and take advantage of premium prices farther north...
...right-he does have to learn to get along, but does he need to lower his interests and his actions to the average? . . . We have taught well the ideas of cooperation. On the other side of the picture, are we developing the individual? Are we putting enough of a premium on the pupils who are different, who are exceptional? Are we developing our geniuses, or are we averaging them out? Are we encouraging some individual thinking, or are we making group decisions paramount? Are we afraid of being branded 'intellectual snobs' if we suggest that the gifted...