Word: extras
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the U.S. the railroads' new dreamliners were performing the same notable trick. Since the war U.S. roads have put into service 1,529 new passenger cars, now run some no streamlined trains (more than 220, counting extra sections). Another $1 billion in new cars and trains has been ordered. The roads that lacked the cash to buy new cars slicked up their old ones. The Central Railroad of New Jersey fitted out four cars in different styles. It got its commuters to choose the style they liked, and is planning to redecorate all its cars to match...
...proposed new ships would include "defense features" (e.g., extra fuel tanks, space for guns), the Maritime Commission was sure that the Defense department would put up enough extra cash so they could be built. Said Vice Admiral W. W. Smith, the commission's chairman: "It looks good for all of them...
...Arthur A. Allen finds an extra nest of the curlew bird, perhaps he would be willing to move it to Denver and rent it to this discouraged family of homing pigeons...
...wheeled automobile, built by Albert A. LaPointe of Hartford, Conn. When standing still, it has two small extra wheels to keep it upright. When it starts moving, the little wheels retract and the two larger ones take over, like a bicycle...
Unlike most of his fellow Bach organists, who are scandalized at the thought of an organ bigger than the one Bach wrote for, Dupré likes an organ with all the "French horns and fluttery tone qualities" that the romantic composers wanted, and enough extra stops for the modern improvisations which are his specialty...