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...land-proud Texas, the program (conceived and largely written by Bascom Giles) seemed a fine policy, enabling many a young man to become a landowner, and providing a much more enduring bonus for war service than cash. But the loosely written law and the $100 million were an open invitation to racketeers and grafters...
...options with the state's money. The fact that Shivers and Shepperd rarely attended board meetings undoubtedly helped Giles work out his plan. Usually the ex-servicemen had no idea what they were signing. Many thought the papers were some sort of application for a cash bonus...
...prices of cars, appliances and radios might rise, there is not much chance of an immediate rise in the price consumers actually pay. Autos were selling last week at anywhere from 15% to 25% under list prices, and even manufacturers were, in effect, cutting their prices to dealers by bonus plans...
CALIFORNIA TIDELANDS will soon get a bigger play from oil companies. Under a new bill signed by Governor Goodwin Knight, companies may drill from piers and barges, can lease most of California's 2,000,000 tideland acres on a cash-bonus-plus-royalty (a minimum 16 2/3% of production on proved offshore lands, 12½% on unproved fields) basis. Most exploration up to now has been by slant drilling from the shore...
...Imperial Navy was top dog of the Pacific. The Midway invasion fleet that he describes numbered more than 200 ships, the mightiest yet assembled by the Japanese. Proud in the van rode the powerful, fast carrier attack force that had spread destruction from Pearl Harbor to Ceylon. Its bonus of strength, the admirals agreed, was surprise. Its only fear was that the U.S. Navy might not dare come out and fight after the Imperial fleet opened the attack...