Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Tarantino struck back. Shipping thousands of extra copies of Nite Life into the Bay area, he gave San Franciscans a shocking story under a black, front-page headline: FREDDIE FRANCISCO-EMBEZZLER-THIEF. Who was Freddie Francisco? Why, said Tarantino, he was a man of eight aliases, with a 20-year criminal record studded with seven arrests (forgery, robbery, grand larceny, theft of Government property) and four convictions for theft, forgery, and fraud. A four-time loser, he was on parole from the federal prison at Atlanta, and was an "accomplished shakedown artist." What was Hearst going...
Next day, after the market closed, the reason came out. Big Steel announced that it would top its regular $1.25 quarterly dividend with an extra one of $1. It could well afford it. Last year's profits were $129.5 million-with another $55 million extra put aside for depreciation-compared to $127 million in 1947. And in the fourth quarter, when shipments hit an all-time record of 5.4 million tons, Big Steel's profits had soared 41% above...
...profits were not confined to Big Steel. (President Truman, at his press conference, said he had always contended that steel prices were too high and he still thinks so.) Bethlehem Steel's net for 1948 was $90.3 million, up 76.8%, but the company cut no extra share of the dividend pie. Armco Steel, with a 28% increase in its profit to $32 million, boosted its quarterly dividend from 50? to 62½?. Wheeling Steel kept to its regular rate ($1 a quarter), though its earnings had jumped to $23.24 per common share (v. $18.66 last year), nearly half...
...houses (Levittown's population is now 20,000), and their gross had jumped from 1947's $20 million to twice that. As big-scale production cut costs the Levitts decided they could give Levittown a slightly bigger house (25 by 32), with a lot of extra comforts, for $7,990. Originally they had planned to build only 2,500 of them this year. After last week's rush they expected to up their goal to 4,000 houses...
...Sachsenhausen). "A transport of prisoners reached the camp. As usual they were counted . . . There were two men extra . . . and German figures must and shall come right. A few revolver shots . . . worked out the sum . . . the two were carried away...