Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Babies can catch emotional upsets as well as colds in the head. A smart parent with sniffles puts on a mask before picking up the baby. Exposures to adult emotions may harm him even more than "a few extra germs." Dr. Dunbar's advice: stop a few seconds outside the nursery door, and calm down...
...lifted export controls from 500 items, including many foods and appliances which had become surplus. The Federal Reserve Board, for the fourth time in three months, eased credit restrictions. It reduced bank reserve requirements 1% and 2%, depending on the size of the bank-thus freeing about $1.2 billion extra cash for lending. But FRB's move was not likely to boost the volume of loans: businessmen had carefully cut their borrowing by $1.5 billion in the last 14 weeks...
...worth plenty. The jury awarded the onetime FHAdministrator a fat $1,150,000 judgment in his suit against Arabian American Oil Co., Inc. for certain "services rendered" (TIME, Feb. 28). The services, according to Moffett, were very special. Saudi Arabia's King Ibn Saud had demanded an extra $6,000,000 a year from Aramco in 1941, on the threat of tearing up its multi-billion-dollar concession in his country. Moffett claimed that he had persuaded Franklin D. Roosevelt to propose that Ibn Saud's sagging treasury be propped up with money from a $425 million...
With all these fat earnings, some stockholders got fatter dividends. U.S. Steel, which had paid a $1.25 quarterly rate since December 1947, shucked out $1.50. Jones & Laughlin paid 35% extra dividend in stock. Colorado Fuel & Iron Corp., whose regular basis is 25? quarterly, topped them all with a special dividend...
This is because when extra men were placed in rooms during the post-war housing crush, the rate per persons was reduced below its original price. Now, with a return to normal rooming conditions, the old per capita rate goes back into effect...