Word: extra
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Wilson observers left the Naval Observatory in Washington to decide whether late Mercury meant the earth's time was 30 seconds fast. They decided it did not. Reason: both prediction and observation contained too large a margin of possible error. To disappointed laymen who had hoped for 30 extra seconds, it looked as though Mercury was just discrediting astronomers again...
...successive month; a rise in textile prices means that clothing prices will follow: wholesale food prices have risen 1.5% in the past week; President Ward Melville of Melville Shoe Co. (Thom McAn shoes) talked last week of higher shoe prices. Items worrying business: White Motor Co. must spend an extra $300,000 this year on a 5?-an-hour increase; Midland Steel Products must pay 3? to 10? an hour more to its line workers; Cleveland Chamber of Commerce announced that 75 representative firms were paying an average hiring rate of 56.2? an hour, the highest ever; average building labor...
...Freshmen have been urged to subscribe to the Red Book before December 1, because if they do they will receive the Register at no extra cost...
...miles farther, out & back, and in wartime at sea every 100 miles counts. The distances from Berehaven and Cobh (Queenstown) in Eire to the southern trade lane (approach to Cardiff and Bristol as well as to Liverpool) are even more disparate when laid against the extra miles the R. N. must plow from Portland, Devonport or even Pembroke...
...upping their advertising costs, typical corporations can reduce by 24% to 60% the size of their tax payments next March. Sample: a firm netting $50,000, of which $25,000 is in the "excess" brackets, would (using the "average-earnings" option) owe $14,312 in taxes. By spending an extra $25,000 for advertising, this firm could reduce its tax bill to $4,152 (the normal tax on $25,000 income). Profits, of course, would also be reduced; the tax saving is merely a discount on the cost of the advertising. A. & S. ran tables of taxes on various profits...