Word: extras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...services typical of a public system-free books and transportation, library supervision, an expanding guidance and testing program, adult and vocational education, special teachers for handicapped children. In contrast to Atlanta's private schools, which spend an average $625 per pupil (and in some cases charge extra for books, food, buses), the public schools cost less because they get federal money ($28 million in 1958), buy supplies on a statewide basis, get cost-cutting help from state experts all down the line...
...duties later on. In the midst of popular enthusiasm, more sobersided politicians took note of another side effect of the news. With the Queen's presence in England next fall now assured (her acquiescence is necessary to the dissolution of Parliament), Prime Minister Harold Macmillan would have an extra month before having to call a general election, which presumably will now be held in November...
...Indian snake charmers?" demanded the News Chronicle. The Daily Sketch, hinting that the "American Mom" had got exactly what she deserved, asked: "Why should our soldiers have to put up with this kind of treatment?" At week's end there was desperate talk of a reinforcement of extra bobbies to guard the guards who guard the palace...
...admits, he was "Battling Nudie," but in those days, in his early teens, he was a boxer of small talents, fighting for as little as a dollar a bout. He learned the rudiments of tailoring in a cousin's shop, then headed West and worked as an extra in Wallace Reid pictures. "Every scene had to have a bunch of people in the background eating peanuts," he remembers. "I was hired as a peanut eater." When the peanuts palled, Nudie bummed his way back to Manhattan and went into Specialty Costumes ("What that means is that...
Foreign carriers have rushed into the U.S. in such numbers that 40 now draw from the U.S. market v. 22 in 1949. Most of them get far more than U.S. carriers out of the bargain, often add extra flights to siphon off as many passengers as possible in violation of the spirit of the Bermuda agreement. In return for permitting Pan American to serve Amsterdam, KLM flies into New York and Houston. Result: last year KLM collected $29.4 million on 86,225 U.S. passengers, while Pan Am got only $1,700,000 from 2,842 Dutch passengers. While cutting into...