Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week Hachiro Arita had made things so extra hot for Sir Robert that a French cartoonist, in a picture of the lonely parleys, showed Britain's Ambassador not only coatless, but pantless, shirtless, shoeless-stark naked. Sir Robert: "And if I give you my disgusting banknotes?" Mr. Arita: "Then I shall return your honorable pants...
...grown fuzzier (to please hard-court players), some tennists have begun to grouse, too. Last week, during the Seabright Invitation Tournament, first of the four major grass-court tune-ups before the National championships at Forest Hills, all the top-flight U. S. tennists roared their disapproval of the extra-fuzzy tennis ball put in use this year (and well liked by the average player because it lasts longer), loudly demanded that some of its fuzz be removed or they would pack up their rackets...
...Production recovered sharply in steel, but there too the advance threatens to result in new inventory trouble. After an extra-seasonal July 4 drop, the steel rate snapped back first to 56.4% of capacity, then to 60%, its 1939 high, and the trade predicted 65% operations yet to come. This continued a June trend: ingots were still being stacked up in anticipation of rush orders from the auto industry late in the summer. After Labor Day it may turn out, however, that Detroit's fall steel needs are being filled...
What ensued was a pull-devil-pull-baker-final whose drama was enlivened by balls bouncing off spectators' legs, jumping stymies, hitting flagpoles and miraculously falling into cups. On the 36th green, the match was still all even. On the first extra hole, the titans, each of whom had played the 36 holes in 10 under par, plopped their balls onto the green in 2. Picard was seven feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently, watched it sink out of sight. Nelson was five feet away from the cup. He tapped his ball gently...
...artful use of newspaper publicity, and by telegrams, letters and phone calls to directors, Broker Young forced competitive bidding for a $30,000,000 C. & O. issue last December. Morgan Stanley, who had had the issue sewed up, stepped out, and C. & O. got an extra $1,350,000 on the issue. Last February, by the same means, Mr. Young forced competition for a $12,000,000 Cincinnati Union Terminal issue; Morgan Stanley withdrew again, and the Terminal got $45,000 extra for its bonds. Last week, after a barrage of letters, wires, phone calls, the directors of Terminal Railroad...