Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...big man rakes...
Most of America's real money-the big money-goes to its small businessmen, entrepreneurs and professionals...
...Where Big Money Is Made...
...big men in some corporations are sure raking it in. April's shower of proxy statements reveals that a few fortunate chiefs are drawing record payments of salary, bonus and benefits: $1.7 million to Revlon's Michel C. Bergerac, for example, and $2.5 million to Warner Communications' Steven J. Ross. Alan Ladd Jr., the dollar scion of a departed Hollywood heman, collected $1.9 million last year as president of the 20th Century-Fox movie division, mostly in the form of a bonus for having had the shrewd sense (or good luck) to make Star Wars. Ford Motor...
...sing along with angry Paycheck. But before everybody gets upset, let alone envious, it might be wise to put the large numbers in perspective. Though nobody has to pass a collection cup for the fellows who reach the top of corporate America's greasy pole, those who make big money as hired managers are a small minority. Down in the trenches, which is anywhere below the senior vice president level, the rewards are moderate and uncertain. A lot of bank vice presidents and middle managers in heavy manufacturing are lucky to crack $35,000; they commonly get a title...