Word: extras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...figure for 1929, $3,637,079,024.09 had already been appropriated and President Coolidge was emphatic in warning Congress to be prudent this session, not to vote any extra money without providing new sources of revenue...
When the telephone officials in Mexico Gity decided that inhabitants of the border town of Nuevo Laredo, Mex., would have to pay 5? extra to call the citizens of Laredo, Tex., the inhabitants of Nuevo Laredo became annoyed with the telephone company and took thought for a revenge. Three hundred of them, last week, removed their receivers from their hooks and left them there, thus paralyzing the service...
...clock tomorrow afternoon. This is believed to be a distinct innovation for although the team has been forced to hold practice at such times as 8 o'clock in the morning, no record can be found where the squad went on the ice on Sunday. The purpose of this extra session is to put the starting and substitute combinations in the best possible form for the second game of the season with the University Club Sextet on Monday night...
...books will admit all students to the balcony, and for fifty cents extra, a guest will be admitted with the holders of the books. This arrangement worked out well last year at the Arena, and should prove even more attractive this year, for the balcony seats at the new Garden are so placed as to make every potion of the playing surface visible from them...
Parliament building at Lima. The cruiser Almirante Grau flagship of the Peruvian navy (13 vessels) steamed out to meet the Maryland. U.S. Ambassador-to-Peru, Alexander Pollock Moore had his shoes shined extra-specially and congratulated himself again and again on being where he was in the middle of things as usual...