Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last week, when he petitioned the Board of Tax Appeals for redress, it was revealed that the Bureau of Internal Revenue, rejecting piqued Mr. Peek's claim that his lawyer's pay was a deductible business expense, had ruled it a personal expense and slapped an extra $535 income tax assessment on his salary as AAAdministrator...
...Exhibition Hall accidentally soused His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent, the youngest son of Queen Mary, who was nicknamed by playfellows at school as "The Scent Bottle." In last week's unreeling of an Empire crisis, sleek, scented Kent was most of the time an orchidaceous extra waiting on the lot while British bigwigs performed the stellar roles in Edvardus Rex. Scenes from this cinema of official facts and carefully checked dispatches...
...Since '29-So Much Extra Cash To Spend," lushed the Wall Street Journal last week in advertising copy which was simply a facsimile of its front page with ringed items about record automobile show attendance, a coming Florida boom and fat extra dividends. November was the greatest dividend month in history, with total declarations, mostly payable before Christmas, mostly inspired by the Federal tax on undistributed profits, footing up to more than...
...mail-order house, sat down in a buff-paneled room a mile west of Comiskey Ball Park to approve three timely measures: 1) a five-for-one split in the company's common stock, creating 1,265,000 shares out of 253,000 now outstanding; 2) an extra dividend of $2 a share on the present common; 3) a change of their corporate name to Spiegel, Inc. Each in its own way, these three acts celebrated a remarkable feat of applied business science. It was applied in 1932 with the result that Spiegel's has earned as much...
...more anarchic courses, or in helping the Freshman to find his footing in Harvard, or in this of that worthy purpose. Presumably some help is given, but few have the face to deny that the cash payment is usually made to facilitate the complete neglect of work (more extra-curricular activity, if you will) and not to direct the poor lost sheep to the proper shelf of the Widener reading room...