Word: extras
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...more apt to be incomprehensible to the educated than to the uneducated. To the Cornellian, academic duties serve as the background for the year's activities, and he is willing to let them stay as far in the background as his more vital enjoyments require. Be he interested in extra-curricular activities, the social whirl, or merely loafing, he allots his time so as to accommodate that interest. If something has to be neglected. It is his University work; he does not intend to let his studies, interfere with his education...
First Class-fast, luxuriously equipped extra-fare "limiteds." Second Class-standard Pullmans on slower trains. Third Class-day coaches. Last week the Interstate Commerce Commission, overlord of railroad management, decided to assay the democracy of first class U. S. transportation. Though nobody had complained of a 40-year practice, the Commission ordered an investigation into the extra fares required for transportation on some carriers' best trains. Section IV of the Transportation Act specifies that through fares must not exceed the aggregate of the intermediate fares between any two points. The I. C. Commissioners suspected that certain roads charged through...
...From extra fares, U. S. railroads derive an additional revenue of approximately $10,000,000 per year. Their stout claim, supported by heavy advance sale of "limited" tickets, is that the traveling public gladly pays the extra fare in return for superior accommodations, extra speed. Some famed limited trains, their routes, their times, their extra fares: New York Central. 20th Century Limited (and three similar trains), New York & Chicago in 20 hr.-$9.60. Southwestern Limited, New York & St. Louis...
...York & New Orleans, 36 hr.-$5. Illinois Central. Panama Limited, Chicago & New Orleans, 21 hr.-$5. Union Pacific. Overland Limited, Chicago & San Francisco, 58 hr.-$10. Santa Fe. The Chief, Chicago & Los Angeles, 58 hr.-$10. Southern Pacific. Cascade Limited, San Francisco & Portland, 27¾ hr.-$3. No extra fare is charged on the best trains operated by the Atlantic Coast Line or the Seaboard Air Line into Florida. Nor do the northern transcontinentals apply an extra fare for travel on their limited trains. Most famed of these, all making the Chicago-Seattle run in 63 hours, are the Great...
...third inning, with two men on, fan famed Hitters Rogers Hornsby and Hack Wilson with a total of seven pitched balls. Every delivery, made with a sidearm motion wide of the box, kept the ball lined against a blind spot, made by some extra bleachers in the green outfield, which Ehmke had noticed in practice. Rallying behind him, the Athletics took enough hits from Chicago Pitcher Charley Root...