Word: bonus
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing I really cared about") and waited to be courted. Yankee Stadium was just a couple of miles away, and Colavito idolized Joe DiMaggio. But the Yankee scouts fretted so long about his slow running (he has inverted arches) that Cleveland got him for a cut-rate $3,000 bonus...
...thereby lining the jacket of General Manager Lane, who gets a bonus of 5?a head for every customer the Indians draw at home over 800,000. Through week's end, the Indians had played to 1,009,362, giving Lane $10,478.10 in nickels in addition to his salary of some...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) Pelham D. Glassford, 76, leathery Washington police chief when the 1932 Bonus Army marched on the Capitol; in Laguna Beach, Calif. A combat general in World War I, Glassford faced the sternest test of his career when 11,000 ragged, jobless veterans descended on Washington to demand bonuses not due them until 1945. He controlled them with tact and courage while Congress marked time, dug $773 out of his own pocket to buy them food...
...help ? Perhaps you could publish a list of the more destitute of these underprivileged executives so that if some of the rest of us have a little left over at the end of the month, we can tide them over until Hupp Corp.'s next bonus...
...Senate Appropriations Committee reported out the year's whopper: the $39,594,339,000 Defense Department appropriation-$346,139,000 more than the White House had asked, with the Army getting the biggest bonus. Included in the bill were an extra $380 million nuclear carrier for the Navy, $85 million more for the Air Force's Atlas missile, and $309 million for the Army's Nike-Hercules and for Army equipment modernization. The Defense Department was directed to keep the Marine Corps at 200,000 men instead of the budgeted 175,000, keep the National Guard...