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...boning up on Old Testament history, philosophy, prayer-book history and comparative religion at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary in Evanston, Ill. The "wise man with the friendly smile and cash" was headed for the ministry. Within three years he expects to abandon his enviable $2,000-a-week radio job for a $40-a-week Episcopal rectorship in some small town in his native Kentucky...
...first instance came in the famed Chicago garmentworkers' strike of 1910. Until then Sidney Hillman had been just an $8-a-week pants cutter. Born in Lithuania, son of a mill owner, grandson of a rabbi, he had studied Russian, absorbed some revolutionary doctrines, and emigrated to the U.S. in 1907, aged...
...grossed $3 million in 1943 and is leading the toothpaste field on its slogan of "Pepsodent with Irium." Irium-smiling "Chuck" Luckman, the man who put the flash in Pepsodent, will stay on as president, will make no changes in policy, and will keep the famed, funny $15,000-a-week Bob Hope radio show to advertise only Pepsodent. Said Luckman: "This is a merger of champions. Together we ought to do pretty well...
...establishment of private pension funds for highly paid executives." But top-bracket executives were not the only ones to benefit. U.S. industry is enjoying a boom in pension plans. Plans have flowered in one war-rich corporation after another, providing financial cushions for the old age of $30-a-week janitors, as well as $2,500-a-week movie stars...
...last week, in spite of OPA food ceilings, $7-a-day dishwashers and a $175-a-week chef, William Richard Wilkerson, LaRue's proprietor, could be reasonably certain that his $44,000 investment will pay off. In its first ten weeks, LaRue had grossed $109,000; it was averaging $14,000 weekly...