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Page 971
... FIRE INSURANCE About the period to which we have now arrived , attention was begin- ning to be directed to the subject of fire insurance . It is true , as we have seen , that in the early Saxon guilds , loss by fire was one of the ...
... FIRE INSURANCE About the period to which we have now arrived , attention was begin- ning to be directed to the subject of fire insurance . It is true , as we have seen , that in the early Saxon guilds , loss by fire was one of the ...
Page 985
... fire , like death and taxes , cannot be abolished , Franklin was ready to take the next logical step : to form an insurance company that would make up the loss caused by fire . This idea occurred to Franklin not later than 1750 , and ...
... fire , like death and taxes , cannot be abolished , Franklin was ready to take the next logical step : to form an insurance company that would make up the loss caused by fire . This idea occurred to Franklin not later than 1750 , and ...
Page 988
... fire - mark . " Fire - marks , now valued only by collectors , were essential in the early days to all fire insurance companies . They were plaques usually made of lead or wood on which was devised the company's emblem and as a rule its ...
... fire - mark . " Fire - marks , now valued only by collectors , were essential in the early days to all fire insurance companies . They were plaques usually made of lead or wood on which was devised the company's emblem and as a rule its ...
Contents
Current Money with the Merchant4000 Years Ago | 680 |
What Do Bank and Bankrupt Mean? | 692 |
How Commission Merchants Became Merchant Bankers | 709 |
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