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...baseball. Last week the Yankees' President Dan Topping handed grizzled, durable (62) Casey Stengel a two-year contract for an estimated $80,000 a year, a record for baseball managers. Although the contract contains no special clauses, Casey, if next season parallels the last one, can expect a bonus that will shoot his salary up close...
...Prospector. After war's end, the Atomic Energy Commission gave uranium mining a big boost by a system of bonus payments. In one month, 1,133 prospectors checked in at AEC headquarters in Grand Junction, Colo. "For a while," says a resident, "we were swamped with guys with Geiger counters and shovels. When you went up on the mesa they popped up behind every bit of sagebrush like Indians. But few did any good...
...Governor. Republican William S. Beardsley, 51, a wordy, wealthy farm owner, is seeking a third term. Under his efficient administration the state has stored up a $3 million reserve fund, paid an $83 million soldiers' bonus, made marked improvement in schools and institutions, and is carrying on a $70 million annual road improvement program. Personally, Beardsley has some handicaps. A year ago, after the Bureau of Internal Revenue and the Justice Department looked into his income tax returns for 1944-49, he paid $8,000 in back taxes and $5,000 in interest and penalties. The governor said...
Judge Thomas H. Dowd awarded a disputed liquor license to Stanley L. Moriarty of Fairfield St., chief examiner for the bonus division of the State Treasurer's office...
...that much, but they did bombard Washington and London with urgent pleas for some further concessions to Mossadegh. By week's end London was still standing pat on its previous offer (to buy Iranian oil now in storage tanks, price to be fixed later, plus a $10 million bonus thrown in by the U.S.). The U.S., whose policy is to let the British have their way in Iran, let them have their way. A Western diplomat in Teheran wryly remarked that bargaining with Mossadegh reminded him of a Persian rug dealer who keeps upping his price each time...