Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of the ocean-hoppers were making extra inducements to lure even more travelers' dollars. Last week, Scandinavian Airlines announced that its Stockholm-bound passengers could stop over in Glasgow, London or Paris for as long as they liked, at no extra charge. American Overseas Airlines, which is now taking U.S. tourists into Germany for the first time since the war, offered a choice of ten "packaged" European tours at a cost of $8 to $18 per day (including meals, hotel, tips, sightseeing, etc.) above plane fare. British Overseas Airways Corp. was pushing a round-the-world trip...
With his new guarantee, Joe will ship to Naples this month $25,000 worth of U.S. trucks, generators, power saws and conveyor belts. Later on, he will go over himself, to install the equipment and hire extra workers (with 75 nephews in Naples, he anticipates no manpower shortage). Before long, he expects to get 1,000,000 stones a month from the quarry (v. 9,000 now), and gross $60,000 a year, 40% of which will go to his brother & sister...
With the eyes of Tulare upon him (plus the extra pressure of knowing he had to win after all the fuss on his account), 18-year-old Bob Mathias at first lagged in points in the stiffest test of all-around skill known to sport-discus, javelin-throw, shotput, high jump, broad jump, pole vault, high hurdles and flat races of 100, 400, and 1,500 meters. He didn't let it ruffle him. When he was not actually competing, rangy (6 ft. 3 in.) Bob relaxed on a blanket, now and then waved to his mother...
...Johnen. "Way above what we have come to consider par," mildly agreed the Enquirer's John P. Rhodes. Soprano Stella Roman and Tenor Kurt Baum won cheers all round for their singing (he especially for the aria, Come un bel dl di Maggio)*and Stella got a few extra cheers for her natural, convincing stage manner...
...clouds ahead. Industry was still cutting back production; the Federal Reserve Board's production index had dropped in May to 174 (v. 192 a year before) and had gone on down in June to an estimated 170. Unemployment was still rising. In June, with more than one million extra job-seekers out of school and college, it rose to 3,788,000, the highest in seven years...