Word: extras
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hearst paper, had his terms accepted, and slouched into their offices to pour out the story of the Gedeon murders in a voluminous, jumbled, sex-loaded signed confession. From late Saturday until Sunday afternoon Hearst writers and cameramen had their prize to themselves. Other papers, writhing as Hearst extra after extra hit the stands, howled to Chicago's police. Detectives searched the Herald & Examiner office in vain. Irwin had been spirited away to the Morrison Hotel where Hearst men played cards with him, treated him well. When he was finally surrendered to the Cook County Sheriff the next afternoon...
...advised Governor Earle consists of Senator Guffey and of David L. Lawrence, who is the Governor's Secretary of the Commonwealth and patronage dispenser. Although Mr. Guffey bosses the machine, Governor Earle does not always obey him. This year, for example, he backed a bill for adding an extra brakeman to freight and passenger train crews. Labor wanted it but Senator Guffey, who is campaigning for lower freight rates on coal, opposed it. With the aid of David Lawrence, the Governor got the Legislature to pass...
...certain of broad cooperation. Under one of France's new social decrees drafted by Leon Blum and published last week by the Chautemps Cabinet as one of its first acts, the 40-hour week applies to French hotels, and according to their managers this would mean hiring enough extra hotel servants to bankrupt the industry. At latest reports, tourists in France were still enjoying every hotel comfort, but the hotel operators threatened through their association to stage a nation-wide lockout of hotel workers for at least 24 hours, to emphasize their protest...
...since 1934. Needing cash to meet his current obligations and more cash to pay for repairs and expansion, the average manufacturer hated like sin to give the Government a cut of his profits. Result was that last Christmas U. S. Business showered down the biggest crop of dividends and extra dividends in years...
...income of $233,000. The stock of this company, whose story would make a perfect Joseph Hergesheimer novel, has always been closely held but last week Birdsboro was granted permission to list 200,000 shares of no-par common on the New York Curb Exchange. Reasons: to provide extra working capital, pay off bank loans, redeem outstanding preferred stock, establish a price for the common stock for the convenience of present owners, mostly family members and widely scattered...