Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Experience has shown that mass flights may give results unthought of today, and for this reason aviation must not be considered an extra branch of the Army or Navy. Aviation has its own aims. I am sure that aviation, under Premier Mussolini, will proceed along these lines...
Reports from Chinese seacoast cities were that Japanese freighters are now rolling in loaded to the scuppers and that most Japanese lines in the China trade have chartered extra freighters. Propped up in front of Chinese editors were orders from the Government threatening to suppress any newspaper which "supports the stand of the ignorant merchants." In a circular telegram the Generalissimo wrathfully declared: "THE GOVERNMENT WILL NO LONGER TOLERATE THE UNREASONABLE ATTITUDE OF THE PUBLIC...
President Roosevelt's vacation trip costs taxpayers ' nothing. The U. S. S. Houston and New Orleans would be making routine practice cruises on Navy funds somewhere else if not to Hawaii. Only extra expense caused by the Presidential party is for food. That is defrayed by the President, out of his own pocket, at $1.50 a day for each member of his party, the price paid by every officer in the wardroom mess. The $25,000 White House travel fund will come into use when the President lands at Portland, starts back across the continent to Washington...
...listlessness of the stock and commodity markets last week, John Investor was finding plenty to make him smile. Into his lap dropped $800,000,000 in quarterly and semi-annual dividends and bond interest due on or about July i. Chrysler Corp. paid him 25? per share plus an extra 25?. National Lead paid him $1.25, Eastman Kodak, $1, Montgomery Ward Class A, $1.75, Coca Cola, $1.50. Manhattan's Fifth Avenue Bank added $10 to its regular dividend of $6 while First National Bank was paying its customary...
Last month, a Los Angeles Grand Jury indicted David Allen and an obscure cinemactress named Gloria Marsh for immorality. Last week the testimony of an extra whose name was not revealed was made public. The extra charged that Allen & Miss Marsh had entered a beauty shop where she was employed and registered her for work; that Allen had later offered her a job if she would "submit to him," that Allen had asked her to invite extra girls to her apartment for parties; that misconduct was usually the price of securing work...