Word: extra
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate-upping as an emergency revenue measure, it proposed, as a substitute, an increase in carload rates ($3 and $6) to add between $100.000.000 and $125,000,000 per year to carriers' income (TIME, Nov. 2). But the Commission tied a strong string to its proposal: this extra revenue must be pooled and from the pool weak roads which could not pay their bond interest and other fixed charges must receive as outright gifts whatever they needed in cash to escape bankruptcy. Any balance in the pool thereafter might be distributed equitably among the other roads. In effect, under...
...panting retreaters threw away their rifles, coats, hats, canteens, valuable extra pairs of officers' high boots, to run the faster. In the utter Chinese rout General Ma, who had begun the day by promising " I will fight so long as one Chinese stands by my side!" ended it safely some 30 miles ahead of the main retreat. For the rest of the week he skulked north of the walled City of Tsitsihar which Japanese took as their prize...
...interesting side of it all is that the "roughs" must be admitted to all dances at eleven o'clock for refreshmens. Many have been the sorrows of house managers who have had to provide for this extra group out of an already depleted treasury...
...expected that there will be a good turnout in these sports, and allowances have been made for extra coaches if necessary...
...Cheered a pledge by Premier Pierre Laval to stave off unemployment, which has come late to prosperous France, by spending four billion francs ($150,000,000) extra on public works...