Word: extra
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...afternoon Congressional from Washington bumped to a halt in a gloomy cavern beneath Manhattan's Pennsylvania Station one evening last week. Amid the crowd that surged out onto the platform, indistinguishable from his fellow passengers except for an extra bit of height (6 ft. 1 in.) and an extra gleam in his eye, walked a middle-aged man with a battered suitcase in his hand and his coat collar turned up against the wintry drafts. As he made his way through the station to the snow-blanketed street to hail himself a taxi, nobody recognized...
...many a worried U.S. retailer, it was the plight before Christmas. "Of course we're not ahead of last year's sales now," Bloomingdale Board Chairman J. Edward Davidson summed it up last week. "But with two extra shopping days this Christmas, we still have a chance to top 1959." For the year so far, store sales are barely even with 1959's record totals. The big test is in the sales that are made in the gift-buying stretch between Thanksgiving and Christmas-usually 16% of the year's total. For most retailers, Christmas sales...
...A.M.C. stock was off one point. What the sellers failed to realize is that Romney cannot lose. He pays nothing if sales, down slightly in December from November, do not increase at least 10%. But if his gimmick makes them rise above that, the profit on the extra cars sold will more than make up the rebates...
...result, "financial need will no longer determine room choices and assignments," the President declared. Scholarship students and other girls with limited incomes will be able to select regular doubles, large off-campus rooms, or dormitory singles without paying extra...
Another replied, "Soph Standing has ruined my academic life here, and it hasn't helped any with extra-curricular activities. I don't want to graduate in three years anyway...