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...Last week Douglas faced a big threat to its production when 9,000 United Auto Workers struck the Long Beach, Calif. plant for a 10?-an-hour cost-of-living bonus instead of the 6? Douglas had offered...
...circus staged by Cleveland's upstart manufacturers Jack & Heintz Inc., U.S. business men never quite knew whether to hiss or cheer Ringmaster Bill Jack. He both be wildered and fascinated them with his free meals, free massages, free Florida vacations for his "associates" (employees) and the $39,000 bonus he paid his secretary for "just working hard." On a $100,-ooo stake and $3,400,000 in Government loans, he rang up peak sales of $90 million in 1943 and overnight became the nation's largest maker of airplane starters and automatic pilots...
...Washington State Bonus Bureau announced that it had passed out $64 million in bonus checks to 191,560 World War II veterans. Among them: General Mark Clark, who claimed residence as owner of a summer home on Puget Sound's Camano Island. Because of length of service (four years overseas), General Clark got close to the state maximum...
...Walters bill not only hands back the marginal lands to the seaboard states; it guarantees that any state will have exclusive rights to anything that may be discovered under its navigable lakes and rivers. For Texas, there is a special bonus: Texas will get control of the sea for three leagues (10½ miles) from shore (because the Texas frontier was thus defined when she joined the union in 1845). And another provision grants all seaboard states 37½% of anything the Federal Government manages to dig up beyond the marginal seas-clear to the edge of the broad continental...
Next day, he auditioned for a sound stage full of M-G-M producers and directors. To them, he sounded like pure gold; they gave him a $10,000 bonus to sign a seven-year contract that ties him to the studio only six months each year. That left him free, before making his first picture, to do 90 more concerts from Nova Scotia to Mexico. In June 1948, he reported to the studio and settled down in Beverly Hills, where he now lives in a two-story white stucco house with his adoring wife, their children, Colleen...