Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hopes & fears of Inflation, since the election insured a continuation of the New Deal's cheap money policy. But on one day 14 issues of Government bonds made new highs since issuance-not precisely an inflationary portent. Still another explanation might have been the continuing flood of extra dividends flowing from efforts to escape the tax penalty on undistributed profits. Standard of New Jersey declared a 75? extra which amounted to $10,000,000, Standard of Indiana a $1 extra footing up to more than $15,000,000, Socony-Vacuum a 25? extra which means nearly...
...number of workers are already getting well over $1,500. They call for bonuses in proportion to profits. Chrysler voted its 67,000 employes a $4,000,000 Christmas present last week. With the two previous bonuses paid this year Chrysler will have paid out $8,300,000 in extra compensation in 1936, equivalent to nearly $2 per share on Chrysler stock and from $105 to $155 for each Chrysler worker. Few"appreciation fund" to be distributed to all employes earning up to $2,400. Individual bonuses will range from $35 to $60. At the same time General Motors raised...
Innovations for House athletics this winter include an indoor track meet and a boxing meet. For the boxing, preliminaries will be held to determine finalists in all classes and the finals will be held as an extra attraction before some varsity match...
SLEEK-HAIRED Fannie Hurst's new book is called Great Laughter. Like Senator Norris she lived some of her early years in Ohio. At Washington University (St. Louis) she was a vigorous undergraduate, participating in sports and endless extra-curricular activities. Her first rejection slips came from the Saturday Evening Post, to which she tried to sell blank verse masques. She studied Anglo-Saxon at Columbia in 1911, worked as a waitress and shop girl to prepare her for novels you've seen on the screen. In 1935 she regained her figure by "taking no food with her meals...
...first rank but also social beings in the fullest sense of the word. The record of the Prize Fellows of the Classes of '38 and '39 lends some color to the original optimism. The men are, with but a single exception, in Group III or better. As for extra-curricular activity, they average higher than "the typical Harvard student", but not as conspicuously as might be expected. A further statistical break-down shows two men with no extra-curricular affiliation whatsover, one in Group 1 and the other in 111, with a slight tendency on the part of Group...