Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...same resolution, the Council suggested that the Houses contribute $1 per man to raise a minimum of $2200 toward the DP fund; and suggested that the College extra-curricular organizations raise $1000 among them for the same purpose...
...diversity, William E. Wiggin's weighty sociological analysis of the Jew at Harvard, seems to have little meaning. His statistics are interesting (if true); but just why he was impelled to write the article is unclear. That Harvard's Jewish students rank high scholastically, that they are active in extra-curricular groups, and that they are not in the clubs are facts well-known to those who care about them. It's a fine idea to run non-fiction research articles; but this reviewer cannot see the raison d'etre of a basically divisive statistical outline...
...good use since 1939 by the Rev. Guy Emery Shipler, who edits and pressagents Manhattan's fortnightly, unofficial Episcopal magazine, The Churchman. The annual "Churchman Award" dinners have honored such eminent folk as Franklin Roosevelt, Bernard Baruch, General Eisenhower and Mme. Chiang Kaishek. Last year Editor Shipler got extra big publicity, but the wrong kind, when Secretary of State Marshall decided that he would rather not accept The Churchman's award. Last week, with his 1949 dinner to honor Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam only a few days off, Dr. Shipler was having trouble again...
...annual Moslem pilgrimages to Mecca, a prime source of his revenue. Ibn Saud needed cash, and he thought the quickest way to get it was to ask Arabian American Oil Co., which held the rich Saudi Arabian oil concession, to fork over an extra $6,000,000 a year. Aramco balked. But in far-off New York was a man who thought he could fix things...
...Douglas Aircraft found that its earnings were "materially larger than anticipated" and declared an extra $2.75 dividend along with the quarterly $1.25 payment. Estimated 1948 profit was at least $4,650,000, compared to a $2,140,000 loss in 1947 (including a $12,640,000 tax credit...