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...beaming man from Nicetown, life has become a lot nicer than it used to be in the old "bus-league" days. With his $45,000-a-year Dodger salary, plus $10,000 or so more from his Harlem liquor store and some extra folding money from cigarette endorsements, Campy can afford steak every day instead of bologna...
...Public Utility Holding Companies Act. Louis Wolfson and friends bought control (46.5% of the shares) for $2,189,160. Capital Transit was a conservative old company, with a fund of more than $6,000,000 set aside for a rainy day. Since 1942, it had been paying a $2-a-year dividend, but dwindling earnings had forced it to cut its dividend to 50?. Wolfson immediately restored the $2 dividend, paying out a total of $480,000 to himself and other stockholders the first year, though the company netted only $332,000. By 1951 the dividend had been doubled...
...regarding businessmen in Government has grown muddled. The original conflict-of-interests statute, enacted in 1917, has been enforced sometimes, disregarded at other times, depending on the political climate. In 1949 the Senate refused to confirm Carl Ilgenfritz to the $14,800-a-year post of Munitions Board chairman on the ground that Ilgenfritz refused to relinquish his regular $70,000-a-year salary as a vice president of U.S. Steel...
...relations job with United Broadcasting Corp. As he hurdles tricky interviews in the company's Rockefeller Center headquarters, Tom feels that even the brass-colored elevators carry the intriguing musk of big money. The scent is headiest around U.B.C.'s self-effacing but all-powerful $200,000-a-year president, Ralph Hopkins. It is to Hopkins that Tom is assigned as unofficial braintruster, ghostwriter and aide...
...service abroad on behalf of the Kremlin. As sometimes happens, he triggered a chain reaction of disclosures about other people. Almost all had been or were still connected with the business of reporting the news, like the witness himself: Winston Burdett, 41, now a $20,000-a-year Columbia Broadcasting System radio and TV commentator...