Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the committee were distributed to the four corners of the House, some doing social service work, some helping the Red Cross and preparing Thanksgiving baskets, others aiding the speaker's committee. In addition the P.B.H. handbook was slightly revised, and this year a critical analysis of extra-curricular activities is to be made for the handbook...
...past two years, "D" and "C" students have been placed in consolidated groups, thus eliminating "dumb bunny" sections a bad psychological influence on "D" students. Instead the bunnies are assigned to one extra conference a week; however, they are still designated on course records by the figure of a rabbit stamped opposite the names...
...tide of extra dividends continued to rise last week. Chrysler Corp. voted a $5.50 payment, bringing its dividend total for the year to $12 per share. Gulf Oil Corp. proposed to split its stock two for one, added a 50? payment to the regular 25? quarterly. Eastman Kodak ordered an extra of 75? per share, Columbian Carbon $1.25, Jewel Tea $2. In some cases the tax law has prompted resumption of dividends, Western Maryland Ry. last week voting the first payment ($7) on its first preferred since it was reorganized in 1917 and Libby, McNeill & Libby the first common dividend...
Another and just as effective way of pushing profits beyond the reach of the tax collector is to pay bonuses to workers. As a matter of practical industrial relations it is almost imperative to give employes something extra when they know that stockholders are being showered. Bonuses, ranging from the $10,000,000 appropriated by General Motors last fortnight to common Christmas presents planned in hundreds of little businesses, have a greater vogue this year than ever before...
President Eliot's voice, recorded in 1924 at New York University, will be included in the showing and the Pathe short "Harvard Special" is added as an extra attraction...