Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...would do its job. In the "approach zone" to the airport, it could raise a 75-ft. ceiling to 400 ft., permitting landings when the airport would otherwise be closed in. When the port has been fogbound, airliners have had to land 100 miles away at Palmdale, at an extra cost of $8 to $10 a passenger. Since Fido will bring airliners in for as little as $1.50 a passenger, the five airlines underwriting nearly half its $842,000 cost figure that it will soon pay for itself...
...Colombia's confusing, ultra-nationalist oil laws had crippled efforts to develop resources. It often took ten years to get an exploration concession through Colombian courts. After that, the million dollars spent on drilling a new well would be subject to tax whether oil was found or not. Extra-legal riders of one sort or another jacked royalties as high as 25%; the total government take, in taxes and royalties, sometimes ran over half the value of a company's net revenue. "Colombia," growled an oilman in Bogota, "is the graveyard of oil profits from other countries...
...fact, word had got around that the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra was giving a tombola (lottery) party to honor beloved old (74 next week) Conductor Pierre Monteux-and incidentally to raise a little extra money for the orchestra's contingency fund. Seven thousand San Francisco music lovers filed in and expectantly awaited the guest of honor...
...patients except the "acutely disturbed" will see the nightly programs. As a precaution against extra-critical reactions, the TV screens are covered by non-shatterable Plexiglas and the sets encased in steel "tamperproof" cabinets. Carlin's patients like comedy shows. Western films are banned (gunplay overstimulates), but drama shows are all right if they are not too dramatic. Carlin's only rule: his patients must not see "anything depressing or anything to cause excitement." So far, he reports with satisfaction, most TV programs do not violate this rule...
Personality plays a large part in extra-sensory perception, Gardner Murphy told an audience of 500 in Emerison D last night, at a meeting sponsored by the Society of Parapsychology...