Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Inland Steel celebrated its 50% rise in earning with a 25? extra dividend in addition to its regular 50? dividend. Typical of hustling steelmakers who in the last 15 years have whittled U. S. Steel's share of the nation's ingot capacity down from 45% to less than 40%, Inland Steel has doubled its own ingot capacity since 1925. Last year it completed a four-year program of diversification by building a tin-plate mill. Its sales and profits this year came chiefly from sheet and strip steel...
...that their bill was generally considered a dismal disappointment as a revenue-raiser. To stop this criticism they announced they would raise surtaxes not from the $150,000 but from the $50,000 level thereby pinch 7,000 instead of 1,000 taxpayers, thereby boost Federal revenue by an extra...
...general. The rich fruit of this cost-stabilizing policy was apparent in the percentage comparisons of this year's earnings which showed that while dollar sales increased 30%, dollar profits jumped 126%. Last week the board of directors voted a regular quarterly dividend of 25?, a 25? extra...
Because of Germany's air rearmament the House prepared to vote an extra $25,000,000 to strengthen Britain...
...Comrade, I can explain everything! With the room shortage what it is in Moscow, I found the woman you saw yesterday. She has an extra bed and agreed to rent it to me, but she said that to satisfy the authorities we must go through the form of marriage-only the form! Last night to my amazement, Comrade, this old woman showed that she does not intend to let our marriage remain a legal form, and I escaped with difficulty. This morning I simply must get divorced...