Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...option.¶ In Detroit, result of liquidation of two closed banks, clerks day by day thumbed alphabetically through lists of depositors sending out checks for 30% of the deposits tied up since Feb. 11 bringing a cumulative wave of belated Easter buying to stores (which had to take on extra employes) until a total of $131,000,000 had again been put in circulation. ¶ In Manhattan, result of hard times which have come upon insurance companies (TIME, April 17). National Surety Co., big writer of surety bonds for the bank deposits of states and municipalities, guarantor of mortgage bonds...
...appearing at the newsstands tomorrow afternoon will be an article "The Public School Man at Harvard," by F. E. Sweetzer, Jr. '36, C. L. Sulzberger '34, president of the Advocate announced yesterday. Comparison will be made between public school and private school men in their scholastic, social, athletic, and extra-curricular careers...
...Russian position will be definitely along defensive lines, since the internal stress, coupled with food shortage make military operations on a grand scale most impracticable. Furthermore, the Japanese war machine has proven itself to be well groomed; and for embryonic Communism to risk itself over a few extra-territorial possessions seems ludicrous...
...weed out about 3,000 and reduce the present personnel to 9,000); 3) cancel Government contracts, including air and ocean mail subsidies, and remake them on better terms; 4) eliminate the year's pay now given to surplus graduates from the Naval Academy; 5) readjust downward the extra flying pay now allowed Army, Navy and Marine aviators...
...loss in 1931. Last year's profit was largely made by scaling down prices paid for beets. Last week boosted the price of raw sugar (duty paid) to 3 3/10? a pound compared to less than 2¾? in February. If his company can make an extra ½? a pound on its annual output of about one billion pounds it will make an extra $5,000,000 profit.* Rubber, sugar, silk, copper, silver, wheat, corn, coffee, meat, hides, wool, cotton, cocoa-each one in a long, long list of commodities last week brought just such startling dreams of profits...