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...veteran on a stretcher), and tosses off gaily professional asides about baseball that may confuse her housewife listeners. The " mood of something for everyone is heightened by two minutes of The Pocahontas Polka followed by two minutes of Ibsen's A Doll's House. As a commercial bonus, the first show offered three ways of achieving poise: 1) avoid nervous giggles, 2) stand and walk as if you're proud of yourself, 3) use Odorono...
...eventually, command of the division. Back in the U.S., he became superintendent of West Point (at 39), history's youngest Chief of Staff (at 50). In 1932, he incurred political unpopularity by personally commanding, under Herbert Hoover's orders, the troops which drove the veterans' Bonus Army from Washington's Anacostia Flats...
...tram conductor into the bargain. An orphan at six, he had gone to work at ten as a farmhand for sixpence a week, and promptly struck for higher wages. The strike failed. Ernie was fired. Soon afterward he got another job at a shilling a week, plus a bonus of jam on Sunday for reading to his new boss out of Hansard's parliamentary reports. In 1908 he made his formal entry into the field of labor relations by setting up a pitch in front of Bristol Cathedral and badgering the wealthy for contributions for unemployed dock workers...
...average age & salary group, his name will pop up on a "skimmer chart" which Greenewalt constantly consults. That man is then moved around departments to broaden his experience. Greenewalt is a good example. In six years, he shot from $10,800 to $362,760 a year (including bonuses), last year earned $539,000 (including a $400,000 bonus). By paying bonuses to all employees who do an outstanding job, Du Pont makes sure that every man's work is reviewed once a year. Last year it paid $26.7 million in bonuses to 5,908 employees...
...establish scholarships for the sons & daughters of Ford employees making less than $6753 month. The money will come from the Ford Motor Company Fund,* will pay tuition and up to 80% of the living costs of an average 70 students a year. It will also send a $500 bonus to any private institution a Ford scholar attends...