Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...transport. Last week, faced by the winter slump which has always hurt passenger flying, TWA made the most important bid for travelers any U. S. airline has offered in a long time. This major transcontinental system cut its fares approximately to the level of ordinary railroad fares, considerably below extra-fare trains...
...That something was restoration of full preferred dividends by U. S. Steel Corp., world's largest private industrial enterprise, world's largest employer of industrial labor. Last week the Steel Corporation not only declared the full $1.75 quarterly payment on its preferred, but also tossed in an extra $2 payment as a start toward clearing up the $16.25 arrears accumulated since...
...levy, running as high as 27% on earnings retained in the business. Last week in Chicago the directors of Sears, Roebuck & Co. made their decision. After marking the company's 50th anniversary by voting a special $1,500,000 "Jubilee" wage bonus, the Sears board declared a $1.75 extra dividend representing an estimated one-half of the year's profits not needed for the $2 Sears regular. In December, when full-year figures can be estimated more closely, the directors will meet again, probably vote another extra of at least the same amount. In effect...
...aren't trying to write a modern Horatio Alger story, but just refuting this story and incidentally filling up this space; and incidentally again, football isn't necessarily the hardest extra-curiricular activity there is. There are others that take up almost as much time and run throughout the year--publications, dramatics, P. B. H., Glee Club. These go from September to June and no great cry about the awful amount of time...
...Penthouse--Tommy Maren's extra vanaganza on the roof of the Hotel Bradford. A gorgeous floor show with no cover charge...