Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Largest: The monstrous Cullinan, found in South Africa's Premier mine in 1907 by a worker who got $10,000 bonus. It was split up for King George's crown and sceptre...
...quarter of the cotton crop had been plowed under. For this Agriculture Adjustment Administration was slowly paying out $100,000,000 bonus. Good weather made the yield of the other three-quarters far above normal. Last week spot cotton was selling for a shade over 9? per lb. (last year's price: 7?). Southern planters were demanding currency inflation and 15? cotton. A loose law made possible the pyramiding of the 4.2? per Ib. cotton processing tax from manufacturer to retail consumer, with the result that the A. A. A. last week had to warn the country against profiteering...
September wheat last week was selling around 88? per bu. (last year's price : 54?) after touching $1.17 in July. Farmers were receiving about a $100.000,000 A. A. A. bonus on their 1933 crop in return for a promise to reduce their 1934 crop by 15%. Last week A. A. A. planned to export to Japan and China 35,000,000 bu. of wheat from the Pacific Northwest, take a $7,000,000 loss by selling it below the domestic price...
...expected to mark for him every day. His usual clients regard him as all-wise, even when he persuades them to take courses against their will. For instance, he advised George Washington Hill to make a full report to American Tobacco stock-holders on the company's bonus system...
...chicken in every pot." WALL ST. LAYS AN EGG-Variety. "The year 1931 will offer rewards for investors"- Roger Babson. "Come to the cross of Jesus Christ"-Billy Sunday. Jimmy Walker stealing an apple off a tree. President Hoover's message to the Republican convention. Smoke from the Bonus army's burning huts hanging like a pall over the Capitol. President Roosevelt on the Capitol steps, prepared to "ask extraordinary powers from the Congress." The New Deal...