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...Package Machinery Co. Became president eight years later. During the Depression, when many firms laid off men, Putnam's poured in money to develop new machinery, kept employment at a high level by going on a five-day week, pioneered profit-sharing, life-insurance and wage-bonus plans. He is comfortably wealthy...
...down. Make her show her colors. Give her this soft, sweeping scarf as a bonus for waiting for you till you got home (or at least for being there). The COOP has come up with another fine gift for the female in your life. Pictures of Harvard landmarks are done in black and white, while the words to "With Crimson in triumph flashing" parade across a crimson and white background. An excellent gift for mother...
...last summer North Dighton began to stir restlessly. The company, hard hit by the textile slump, abolished its bonus plan and revised vacation pay schedules to cut costs. Workers began to grumble and sign up with the C.I.O. Textile Workers Union. When Milliken fired 191 employees, the plant struck, and the strikers fought with those who refused to walk out. During the 54 days of trouble, fearful company executives and other townspeople took out pistol permits. In one attempt to bring peace, President Milliken called the strikers to the front lawn of his ten-acre estate, urged them...
Money worries were flicked aside: "We'll be two little silkworms and live on mulberry leaves." Every dawn brought a poet's bonus in beauty: "The air is like silk today and there is a sheen upon the world like the sheen on a bird's wing. It's very quiet except for the gardener and his spade and warm as fine wool...
...Premier Manning has been less rigorous in his devotion to the woolly formulas of Social Credit. His public speeches still include occasional vague references to monetary reform, but there is no more talk of the $25-a-month bonus, although Alberta's current $70 million cash surplus would presumably permit a few token dividends. When some diehard...