Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small fry with only $500,000,000 to spend. Because Mr. Ickes' public works were so slow starting, Mr. Hopkins had to set up Civil Works Administration to get the jobless through that first New Deal winter. In the second stage (1934-35) Secretary Ickes got an extra $500,000,000 to carry on his incomplete PWA program and Administrator Hopkins got a bigger slice with which, besides doles, to experiment with work relief, surplus farm commodities and rural rehabilitation. In the third stage (1935-36) President Roosevelt himself became the big relief man with...
...Tenor Lauritz Melchior, tried to get Conductor Artur Bodanzky, who had performed wonders with its ragged run-down orchestra. Last week from Vienna, Conductor Bodanzky cabled his refusal on the grounds that the San Francisco orchestra pit was too small for Wagner, that he could not do without the extra musicians whom he would have to take from Manhattan. San Francisco thereupon appointed Conductor Fritz Reiner, who proved himself an expert opera conductor in Philadelphia last year, is now at London's Covent Garden...
...wrestling ring in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden last week two men growled and glowered at each other. Squatting in one corner, wearing a fancy ruby-colored robe with turban to match, was Arteen Ekizian, 30-year-old Turk, one time fish-peddler, U. S. sailor and Hollywood "extra." To 5,000 raucous spectators he was Ali Baba, the Terrible Turk of whom posters asked IS HE MAN OR BEAST? Ali Baba's head resembled a speckled ostrich egg. His upper lip was hidden behind a sweeping pair of handle bar mustachios. His teeth were jagged and irregular...
Though previously warned of the enthusiasm of women bowlers, Omaha's Hotel Fontenelle remained skeptical up to the last minute, had to send out for extra cots for its 600 female patrons. Popeyed, Omaha's citizenry gaped at the husky visitors, most of them over 30, who resolutely dropped the Mrs. from their names, gulped vast quantities of beer, sang their own bowling songs, whooped the Wahoo song in honor of nearby Wahoo, Neb. But what surprised Omaha most was to find that, aside from stenographers and salesgirls who sent ball after ball into the gutters, certain women...
...year-old mark. With these figures at hand, GM directors sat down last week to do even more than President Roosevelt and his proposed tax on undivided profits would have them do. After declaring the usual quarterly dividend of 50?, they proceeded to treat stockholders to a handsome 75? extra. Next month GM will mail dividend checks footing up to some...