Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...downstroke, the wing is far forward. The bird pulls it back and up. This "rowing" motion against the air gives the bird an extra forward drive...
When the Atlantic Monthly held its first prize novel contest 23 years ago, a flood of 1,150 manuscripts engulfed the editorial staff; extra readers were hired to weed out the hopeless entries. Into the rejects went a manuscript titled Jalna, written by a Canadian woman named Mazo de la Roche. Its handsome binding caught the eye of one of the Atlantic's regular editors. He picked the manuscript out of the discard, glanced at it and did not stop reading until he had finished it. Jalna won the contest's $10,000 first prize...
Most London dailies expanded from four to six pages, three days a week. Only the News Chronicle devoted the bulk of this extra space to wider reporting of politics and industry. By contrast, Beaver-brook's Daily Express added Dick Tracy and Kit Conquest to its comic strips, expanded the letters-to-the-editor column, and turned Woman's Editor Anne Edwards loose for two columns on her favorite foods and pet hates. The Daily Mirror, locked in a circulation war with the Express, also added a woman's page to its successful formula of sex-plus...
Money Savers. To compete with railroads, airlines have also cut prices as much as 25% on "excursion," "tourist," and "family fare" rates. For two months Capital Airlines has flown an experimental nighttime "coach" service between New York and Chicago in DC-48, without meals, pillows, blankets, extra stewardesses of other costly incidentals. The fare: $29.60 (v. $44.10 on regular flights, and rail coach fare of $27.30). With passenger loads up to a good average of 77% of capacity, the coach planes so far have netted Capital a good profit. Similar coach services were being planned or flown by TWA (between...
Higher costs for repair, labor, and heating have forced Radcliffe rate rises over the past two years. Last spring room and board rates jumped an extra $20 per term, while tuition this year mounted from $450 to $525. A fifth course, previously included in the overall tuition fee, must now be paid for separately...