Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Westerners, whose religious wars lie centuries behind them, could not easily understand how Turks felt last week. Kemal's ventilation had swept away the Turk's fez, his extra wives, his remaining wife's veil, and now his church service. Last week, for the first time in history, Turks of Istanbul, where the reform was inaugurated, understood what the priests were saying. But they found it hard to believe it was the same thing as the Arabic gibberish that had had 13 centuries of mumbo-jumbo behind...
...salaries were cut and the current season shortened from 24 to 16 weeks. A guarantee of $150,000 privately subscribed last spring has been eaten into badly. With box office receipts at their present low it was figured that even a season shortened to twelve weeks would require an extra $300,000 to see it through...
...present production rate American Tobacco on Luckies alone will make $46,000,000 less than last year, may earn no more than $3 a share toward its $5 worth of 1933 dividends. Last month American Tobacco gave up its usual $1 extra dividend and last week Mr. Hill, worried by stockholders' suits, renounced for the future the $380,000 he might have had as a management bonus. But what most worried Mr. Hill was 10? cigaret sales. Present estimated annual rate of production gives to two of the ten centers alone 20% of the total, makes the "Big Four...
These nominated for the Junior member are D. D. Bond '34, E. D. Brooks, Jr. '34, S. E. Davenport, III '34, and R. L. Stites '34; for Sophomore member A. F. Gillette '35, F. D. Moore '35, Richard Prouty '35, and Warren Strugis '35. Extra names may be added to this list by presenting a petition signed with ten names to Bacharch at Eliot House...
Just as managing editors are lamenting the fact that the magic word technocracy no longer possesses that extra something--front page allurement--the inventive genius of the American mind conceives another startling idea for doctoring the ills of the stricken world. "Biocracy" is the name for it, and it is a rival to the technocratic cure...