Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have added that: the speed maintained to keep on time exceeds many trains, for we traveled over 60 m.p.h. for hours at a stretch . . . the motors are rather noisy in gear; on a smooth highway such as Kansas offers, travel even at high speed is considerably steadier than any extra-fare Pullman ever built; the natives of much of the route regard the bus as a creation of Mars, judging by the way they stare at the apparition as it roars along the boulevards or chugs through small-town streets; passengers have to trust to luck to find congenial traveling...
...violent controversy. The Detroit automaker was praised as an "inspired millionaire," accused of shrewd self-interest, damned as a dangerous Socialist. In seven days Manhattan newspapers carried a total of 52 columns of Ford stories. Radicals feared that Mr. Ford was buying his workers' souls with a few extra dollars per week; conservatives were concerned about employes "spending their money foolishly." And out of the deafening hubbub Henry Ford emerged as the international symbol of modern industrialism...
...process was simple. Staffmen wrote and edited their copy much shorter than usual. Expert stenographers typed it in two-column measure, tapped out headlines on special Remington portables with extra-large letters. Editors then pasted stories and headlines upon heavy cardboards the size of a newspaper page. Staff cartoonists inked in column-rules, dashes, decorations. Clippings from back numbers were pasted into place for the mastheads, weather reports, departmental headlines, etc. The whole was photo-engraved, cylinder plates cast, sent to press...
...broad and cultural education. Were President Hutchins dictator of all U. S. education he would combine senior high school and junior college on a 6-4-4-2 pattern (six years of grammar school, four of junior high, four of senior-high-plus-junior-college, with an extra two years or more of university work for serious students only). Many educators differ on the specific pattern but agree on the aims...
...singers, whose hardships he knew from personal experience. His father, a Buffalo minister, sent him to Yale, where he majored in the glee club. He sang in concerts for 13 years until Gatti-Casazza, then serving his first season in the U. S., decided that he needed an extra bass. Witherspoon sang for eight years at the Met, retired to teach. During the hazardous season which preceded Samuel Insult's collapse, he directed the Chicago Civic Opera...