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...enlist the aid of its salesmen's wives. International Cellucotton Products Co. puts out a 48-page booklet on how a wife can help her salesman husband get ahead ("We shall have an unbeatable-a triumphant three-way partnership: wife, husband, company"). Others use such incentives as bonus vacation trips for entire families, in hopes that wives will keep their husbands working their darndest to win them. Last week the Clary Multiplier Corp., of San Gabriel, Calif., announced a new gimmick: a telephone-quiz contest for the salesmen's wives on how their husbands are doing...
...crap up the captain" (praise him), sing their work chanteys ("Who emptied out the bottles from hea-a-ven-n-n, and let the rain fall down-w-w-n-n?"), or joke about the odor of their cargo ("Mellow, eh fellow . . . Real mellow, fellow"), their talk seems the bonus catch in Author Conrad...
GENERAL MOTORS paid its President Harlow H. Curtice a grand total of $637,233 in salary, stock and cash bonus in 1953, the biggest money ever given a G.M. executive, surpassing Charles E. Wilson's record $626,300 in 1950. Eleven other executives got more than $300,000 apiece; G.M.'s top 62 officers and directors collected almost $12 million...
...Sato: Is it true that your friend Mr. H. (managing director of a business firm) receives a bonus...
...federal government also gives veterans preference in their civil service ratings. But by limiting favoritism to a five point bonus on the test scores for able veterans, and a ten point bonus for those handicapped by military service, the government still keeps its emphasis on competence. As it is, veterans can use their benefits from the G.I. Bill of Rights to go to school and acquire the training they need to win either state or federal civil service positions...