Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Brigadier Gen. Pelham Davis Glassford, 51, who resigned as superintendent of the District of Columbia police six months after the Bonus Expeditionary Force marched to Washington (TIME, Oct. 31, 1932); and Lucille K. Painter, 33, his secretary; in Holbrook, Ariz...
...more than in the same period of 1933. And instead of a $300,000 profit for the period, it reported earnings of $700,000. Last week, "on the basis of unusual accomplishment by the Jewel organization" the directors declared not an extra dividend but a 5% wage bonus for each & every one of its 2,250 employes...
Last January AAA sprang its great corn-hog reduction program. The hog part of it provided that every farmer who cut his hog birthrate 25% during 1934 would get a bonus of $5 a head for the other 75%. To many a Midwestern farmer who usually raised 100 hogs this meant $375 of wel- come Government cash if he would raise only 75 hogs. That was what Secretary Wallace had in mind...
Also on the staff are Public Utilities Expert Cam Shalton, Sleuth John T. Rogers (who in 1931 got a bonus of more than $6,000 for solving the kidnapping of Dr. Isaac Dee Kelly Jr.), Political Commentator Curtis Belts. When a big story breaks the Post-Dispatch sends so many men out to cover it, that rival newshawks complain that at the scene they can see nothing but Post-Dispatch men. The importance of last week's changes to the Post-Dispatch itself was not easy to predict. The paper has been called "an American Manchester Guardian." Among...
...percentage there was just enough left to return to each better on Evening exactly the sum he had bet. Only real winners were the Soviet stables which entered the four leading horses. Among them the State divided a purse of 30,000 rubles, part to be used in paying bonuses to drivers, trainers and stable boys of the winning mounts. Evening's driver, called "Citizen Pianov" by earnest Soviet sportswriters, received, in addition to his bonus, one month's holiday on the Black Sea near the one-time summer palace of Tsar Nicholas II, at Government expense...