Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...universal levy of ten dollars on every undergraduate, whether he wished to avail himself of buildings or not, would more than double the present athletic receipts from the students, and would thus bring in a total of about $34,000 a year, as well as extra money from students in Graduate Schools who would buy their Participation tickets as usual. This added revenue would more than support six of the minor sports, since with the exception of golf and polo, $5,000 more a year is all that is needed to put them back on their feet. If this...
Western Union made $5,258,000 in 1935 against $2,243,000 in 1934. The telegraph company did not get much additional business in 1935 but succeeded in making a $3,000,000 increase in profit out of a $2,600,000 increase in income, chiefly by handling the extra business with a $300,000 decrease in operating expenses. Western Union earned $5.03 a share, closed last week at $91, about 18 times earnings...
...February which will not be sold until September. Meanwhile the price of hides may decline, consequently depressing shoe prices so that for its February order of shoes Sears will get only $900,000. Contrariwise, hide (and hence shoe) prices may rise, in which case Sears will make an extra and unexpected profit. In any event, Sears is, in effect, speculating in hides. By hedging (selling hides short when the shoes are ordered, then buying in the hides as the shoes are sold) Sears is assured its retailing profit, no more, no less...
Every four years the wheels of industry, the fleets that sail the seas, the post office department, and the society columns of the newspapers, indeed, the whole world is upset by an insidious confusion that arises from the fact that we have an extra day thrown into an otherwise smoothly running stream of time. The system is so inaccurate that every four hundred years, as regularly as the sun rises and sets, we must skip a Leap Year. Could anything be more ridiculous than skipping a Leap Year...
...over 100. When the index dropped to 89.7 in 1933 the meal rate dropped correspondingly to $8.50. With the food index this year at 123.9 it is only natural that the dining hall charges must take corresponding upswing. To the student who must dig into his pockets for an extra $27 next year the change is an unquestioned annoyance; the figures, however, should be sufficient evidence to silence any rumbling suspicion that he is being robbed...