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Last week Charles E. Wilson, who had retired from his $275,000-a-year job as president of General Electric to become U.S. mobilization boss, made his second report to the nation. It had been a "year of achievement," he said. But it was not good enough: the mobilization program, he candidly admitted, is a full 20% behind schedule. Out of 64 key military items, 17 were behind schedule in the first three months of 1951. Items...
Through such tests over the past three years, the Government had apparently been getting just what it wanted in the way of $3,100-a-year junior management assistants. Of 36,000 hopefuls who took the J.M.A. exams, only about 2,000 passed, and only 1,600 were hired to start the long climb toward top-level jobs that pay up to $14,000 a year...
Seretse has been living in London with his wife and baby daughter on a ?1,000-a-year government allowance; Tshekedi stayed with a neighboring tribe in Bechuanaland until he turned up in London last March to plead his case...
Died. Leroy August Wilson, 50, who graduated from Indiana's Rose Polytechnic Institute in 1922, three days later went to work as a $110-a-month traffic clerk for Indiana Bell Telephone Co., 26 years later was elected the $125,000-a-year president of the world's largest ($12 billion assets) corporation, the American Telephone & Telegraph Co.; after long illness; in Manhattan (see BUSINESS & FINANCE...
During World War II, everything Comet made went to the Government; one-third of their $500,000-a-year output still does. But now Comet also sells military models to hobbyists. In addition, Comet makes models of hot-dog stands (for use by model-train enthusiasts), football players (for skull-practice sessions), and scale models of furniture and production lines (for laying out factory and office space...