Word: extras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Governor, Furcolo has spent more than any other executive in state history. Inflation is one cause of this record and debt retirement has proved very expensive. Massachusetts has the largest per capita state debt in the nation, despite the existence of a high state income tax, extra excise taxes and local property levies that pass $90 per $1,000 valuation in Boston. (However, it should be pointed out that part of Furcolo's expenditure has gone to provide additional housing for the elderly, to establish nine state junior colleges, and to reconstruct the inadequate state road system...
...coal dust up in Springhill, Nova Scotia last week. The casket trade in the Maritime Provinces, which are economically depressed, rose sharply. The coffee-donut market was brisk as newspapermen arrived from the city. (There are no saloons in Nova Scotia.) The telephone company worked overtime to string up extra lines so the press could transmit its wirephoto of Canada living in the early 19th century. That picture was about the only good thing that ever came out of Springhill...
...FARES will go up an average 3% to 4%. CAB ruled that lines may end 5% discounts on first-class round trips, cut family plan discounts from 50% to 33⅓%, charge $2 extra for each stopover. But CAB warned that these boosts will be discontinued next July 31 unless lines cut other fares, e.g., by offering a cheaper tourist fare...
...elected to pass for the extra point and was stopped...
...contacts with both the players and administration. Managers feel they have a grave responsibility for team spirit. Sloppy arrangements of a trip may wreck the spirit of a team. Above all, managing is one way "to get out of a rut" by assuming some worthwhile responsibilities in a valuable extra-curricular activity...