Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...assorted communities as New York City, Baltimore, Denver, Los Angeles, Altoona, Pa., Ann Arbor, Mich., Charleston, S. C., Tucson, Ariz. The shortage had by no means reached the boom stage, when contractors "pirate" building mechanics on their way to work, enticing them away from other contractors with extra-fancy bonuses. But the bonus wage in 1937 is no longer a half-forgotten legend...
...comparative expenditures for fiscal 1936, 1937 and 1938 as shown by the budget (exclusive of the veterans' bonus and of amounts theoretically spent in retiring the debt...
...Louis Ludlow of Indianapolis, hulking ex-newshawk who three months ago sent the Clerk of the House the draft of a bill with the request that it be the session's Bill No. -an honor which Wright Patman of Texas won at the last two sessions for his Bonus Bill-got it back all neatly printed. Before a battery of cameramen he marched up and dropped it in the hopper (see cut). It was free publicity for a pet project of the Fraternal Order of Eagles to have a Commission find out how to stabilize employment...
...related how Mr. Gravell talked to each & every one of his employes at the main plant when he gave them checks to square their debts. All no American Chemical Paint Co. workers (76 at Ambler, 34 in other branch plants)-whether they had debts or not-shared in the bonus handout...
...complimentary to the management. A Motor Products strike ended last summer after ten months of bickering between competing unions, but it failed. Last trouble at Briggs was an epidemic of departmental sit-down strikes a month ago which resulted in wage increases. Fortnight ago Briggs announced a year-end bonus of $1,000,000 for 26,000 employes...