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...President's plan: members of Congress, from $10,000 to $20,000; cabinet members, from $15,000 to $25,000; Supreme Court Justices, from $20,000 to $30,000; agency heads, from $10-12,000 to $17-20,000. The President said nothing about his own $75,000-a-year salary...
...last week, things looked up sharply. President Prescott landed his first big contract - a $200,000-a-year deal with California Flower Shippers to fly flowers from California to Chicago at $1,440 a planeload. Said Prescott: Skyways should now be able to expand in a more dignified fashion...
...setback to presidential prestige. This time, it was on his nomination of Raymond S. McKeough (rhymes with Reo), ex-New Deal Congressman from Illinois and onetime OPA official, to the U.S. Maritime Commission. The Senate Commerce Committee had turned thumbs down, because McKeough was still a paid ($10,000-a-year) director for C.I.O.'s P.A.C. The Administration took the fight to the floor...
...Whaling? Already counting on getting 150,000 tons of whale oil this season (worth $27,000,000 at present prices), whalers hope to have a $30,000,000-a-year business before many years have passed. They intend to ask, at the meeting next month, for a relaxation of the international whaling agreement, which now restricts kills to 16,000 blue-whale units (two fin whales, or two and a half humpbacks are counted as one blue-whale unit). They argue that with fewer ships, tight restrictions are no longer necessary...
When he abdicated, Hays' successor to the reported $200,000-a-year job had long since been chosen. He was the darling of U.S. free enterprise: handsome, grinny Eric Allen Johnston, 48. He will go to work immediately, but will keep his job as President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce until...