Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chinese counterattacked and fought so furiously that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek gave them a bonus of $20,000, a lot of money in North China...
...When Comrade Browder declared that the Soviet Union was determined to maintain peace, the audience laughed loudly. But Mr. Browder got his biggest hand when he asserted that if the U. S. copied the Russian system it could by 1950 give every U. S. man, woman and child a bonus...
...good news came just ten days after its potent Pittsburgh competitor, Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co., announced a 6% November wage bonus, compared to 4% in October for its 45,000 employes. Westinghouse's bonus system, adopted in 1936, boosts wages 1% for each $60,000 by which average monthly earnings for the previous three months exceed $600,000, cuts them 1% for every $60,000 below this par. Westinghouse's profit-sharing payments to Nov. 1 this year...
...Keynes added that British soldiers' pay might be raised similarly, by "the reward of deferred consumption" instead of cash. Instead of more pay now, Tommies would receive savings certificates ("bonus") which, when war ends, would enable them to share in the increase of consumer goods which would then ensue, thus benefiting both themselves and the national economy...
After completion of the course and the required term of duty, cadets may return to civil life with a bonus...