Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confined to this degenerate minority. In Arkansas 410 spokesmen for families out of a total attendance at four meetings of 1,719 persons told me that they had neither crops to make nor jobs to work at. Food allowances on which from 10? to 20? on the dollar extra is charged are held to about $2 a week for a share cropper's family by the plantation owner. Houses are worse than poultry houses on well-kept farms. A family showed me relief which it was told must last for 30 days- there were seven in that family...
...operation of the cotton reduction program has added immensely to the woes of a large proportion of tenants who have been cut adrift or reduced to an even lower circle of hell as casual day laborers at 60? to 75? a day when there is extra work. The whole Administration at Washington turns all complaints over to Mr. Chester Davis, author of the recent purge in the Department of Agriculture, and ardent disbeliever that there is anything wrong in the cotton country, at least anything for which he is responsible...
...modernistic effect to the exterior. The panels, 2¼in. thick, consist of two layers of mixed cement and asbestos. Between the layers is an insulating substance which looks like burnt cork and is termite-proof, fireproof. The outside of the house is a light grey, needs no paint. Extra rooms can be added from time to time by "unbuttoning" one outside wall...
...whom, as a taxpayer, it could not embarrass. Anyone may turn to a World Almanac, learn that the U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue gets $10,000 a year. But Commissioner Guy Tresillian Helvering knows that the job of compiling the pink slips would put a tremendous extra burden on his Bureau, cost the Government some...
...argument. It is difficult to understand why, if there is a large number of Freshman who would use the Union between eighty-thirty and nine, they should not be entitled to as much consideration as upperclassmen. Surely the waitresses could be retained for an additional half hour, at little extra cost...