American Life Insurance Marks 100th Year With New Actuarial Tables
The 1945 centennial year prompts American Life Insurance to adopt a new mortality table reflecting longer life spans. The move, urged by state commissioners and actuarial experts, affects future policies though in force policies remain unchanged. Rising costs, lower investment yields, and war-era funding reduce chance of lower premiums.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Life Insurance
Elmo Scott Watson
Western
Union
Ineteen
Alfred N. Guertin
New Jerrey
John S. Thompson
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company of
Newark
N.J
Actuarial Society of America
Guertin Committee
M. D.s
United States
U. S
Germany and Allies face postwar economic rift and reform
Hard boiled Leon Henderson delivered a blunt report to President Roosevelt from his Germany survey. He criticized army and State Department planning and urged civilian administration of the German economy under an Allied high commission, with military obeying civilian leadership. He warned against partition by zones and noted German rail and industry run as a unit. Henderson plans to study price controls in China after declining to return to Germany. The piece also notes debates on GI involvement at the peace table and Stilwell's act of securing aid for a fallen officer's widow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Leon Henderson
Roosevelt
Henderson
White House
Hisenhower
OPA
State Department
London
Wenderson
High Commission
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Hitler
Kaiser
Congress
San Francisco
Sumner Welles
Maryland
Rhode Island
Charles M. Lee
Cumberland
Joseph Mills
Warwick
R. I
Texas
South Carolina
Johnston
Representative Jackson
Washington
U. S
South
Midwest
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Birth of Industrial Russia and Electoral Voting Debate
A retrospective contrasts the rise of industrial Russia under Stalin with the birth of the United States, noting the Soviet Union as a future competitor and detailing electoral voting versus popular count. It recalls aviation progress since Captain Brown’s historic flight and urges readers to count blessings over griefs in daily life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Siberia
Wyoming
Nevada
Arizona
Chicago
Arthur Whitten Brown
Brown
America
Newfoundland
Ireland
Atlantic
Pacific
Planning national reconversion for postwar security
Western Newspaper Union report argues cash surplus and demand can avert postwar downturn. It urges Roosevelt to form a national reconversion program across labor, business, and farming, to stabilize prices and wages and rebuild confidence. Critics fear political attack on the New Deal. editors cite inflation and job needs as central issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roosevelt
Wallace
Also Mentioned on This Page
Messrs. Guertin
Ulpianus
Asate
Edmund Halley
Halley
Breslau
Silesia
Europe
Ben Miller
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance
Ben
Pres
James Polk
Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Company
Mutual Benefit
Robert L. Patterson
Robert Patterson
Broad Street
Stock Exchange and Sub- Treasury
Customs House
New York City
Life Insurance
Iowa
Des Moines Sunday Register
Joe Stilwell
Army
Col Gus Ring
General Stilwell
Stilwell
Capitol
Henry Wallace
Fred Vinson
Jesse Jones
Austin
Vermont
Mexico City
AUN and
Wright A. Patterson
Russia
Lord Cornwallis
Yorktown
Atlantic Seaboard
Allegheny Mountains
Great Central Continental Valley
Philadelphia
France
Spain
England
Stalin
Western Newspaper Union
News 5
Washington, D. C
Brooklyn Docks
Wall Street Ferry
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