Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...because the Legionaire-Senator Clark, who is no end proud of his parliamentary astuteness, knew well enough that there were four to six pro-Bonus Senators, willing to vote for the "sound" Vinson Bill who would not vote for the Patman (greenback) Bill. He knew further that those extra four to six votes would probably be vital when the time came to override a Presidential veto. But Senators Long and Elmer Thomas did not care nor did Commander Van Zandt...
...Alice in Wonderland because in it animals talked, thus putting themselves on a par with humans. Tsarist Russia, fearful lest moppets get fantastic ideas, banned Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales. Last week New York Junior Leaguers, delighted by the interest the exhibition had aroused, extended it an extra week, talked of taking it on tour...
...amenities, noticed only when absent, draws no lines or social distinction, as it applies in nearly as great force to the student body. Furthermore, it would be hard for anyone at all to be a Lord Chesterfield on a salary or some twelve dollars a week. Yet that small extra effort, which soon becomes an unconscious habit, of politeness is one of the features that distinguish civilized urbanity from the frontier, and make a pleasure out of the process of living...
...through electrification, points with pride to its passenger traffic which last year showed a gain for the first time in a decade. To increase it still further,. Pennsylvania last week cut Broadway Limited's New York-Chicago time to 17 hr. (a reduction of 45 min.), lowered the extra fare from $10 to $7.50. Simultaneously New York Central did the same with its crack 33-year-old Twentieth Century Limited...
About a month ago Denver postmen began to grumble at the loads they were lugging. Postal receipts at the Denver Post Office for April climbed dizzily and more than 100 extra hands were called in for full-time service to help handle the swelling volume of first-class mail. An amazing number of dimes began to pop out of the stamp-canceling machines. Finally it was discovered that a "Send-a-Dime" chain letter was sweeping the city. Completely swamped, Postmaster James Orren Stevic called in postal inspectors to investigate the possibilities of stopping the scheme as fraudulent. "The thing...