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...student tests, on which the Contests are based, are similar to the TIME News Quizzes which appear in the magazine. The Contest itself was first tried as an experiment in 18 preparatory schools in 1936. (A sample question 'on National Affairs was this: "The soldiers' bonus will be paid June 15 in: 'printing press' money-silver certificates-Baby Bonds-gold-long-term bonds." The answer: Baby Bonds...
...farmlands beyond, Koreans turned out to cheer the "AntiCommunist Patriotic Youth" as their trains rumbled south through the night. But the P.W.s were somewhat disillusioned by their welcome at South Korean Army reception depots. Army officers told them they could join up (with no advance pay, no bonus, no leave), or they could return to civilian status and-if they were still in their 20s the draft. One young P.W. lieutenant was bitter. "I want to go to school," he said. "I've been in the Army eight years, almost four of them behind wire. It's unfair...
Many Negro employees complained that Swift did not give them an even chance with whites to climb to better jobs. Both Negroes and whites disliked the bonus plan under which Swift pays employees extra for output above "normal" standards. Only 16% said they wanted to see the system abolished, but an additional 55% viewed it with mistrust. ("They put it in a book, and only they have the book"). One trouble was that many workers did not understand how the plan operated ("It's bad! Like on my job-you can't hardly figure it out"). Father Purcell...
...call modern society." From Manhattan. Eleanor Holm Rose, estranged wife of Showman Billy Rose, flew off to Nevada, where by lingering for six weeks prior to April 10 she can divorce Billy, thus qualify for a settlement jackpot of $30,000-a-year alimony, plus a $200,000 bonus...
...their lawyers had been unable to work out in a two-year tug of war. Provided one of them divorces the other by April 10, Eleanor will go on swimming in the kind of money to which she is accustomed: alimony of $30,000 a year, plus a tidy bonus of $20,000 a year for a decade. Billy chirped: "Too bad neither of us had sense enough to have that cup of coffee 24 months...