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...members of the Netsilik tribe to Christianity. One day Father Henri saw the bodies of three newborn girls abandoned in the snow: this was the Eskimos' traditional way of solving their surplus population problem. Father Henri arranged for Eskimo parents to get the Canadian baby bonus, usually in the form of hunting supplies. Now the practice of infanticide has virtually disappeared among the Netsilik...
...politician who gets our votes won't be the one who advocates a vets' bonus or any similar Treasury grab - which is obviously designed to get more votes for himself - but our votes . . . will go to the man with guts and integrity enough to advocate a little sensible thinking and economy - even if that economy starts with us ! JAMES A. SUMNER Greeley, Colo...
...Seanlon plan's basic aim is to make the workers contributing partners in an enterprise. There are two parts to the plan. The first is a formual for rewarding the workers by bonus for any increases in productivity due to their efforts or suggestions. The second part is a system of labor-management committees to sift these suggestions, and put the valuable ones into effect...
...management must decide some way of measuring the company's labor cost, and agree on a "normal" month's labor cost. Then if in any month the workers can reduce labor costs below this "normal," they get the saved difference between "normal" and actual labor costs, as a bonus. The bonus each man gets will be proportional to his wage rate...
...part in this, 47-year-old President Greenewalt, who came to Du Pont as a promising young chemist and later married Irénée du Pont's daughter, was well rewarded. To his $138,000 salary, the directors added a bonus of $224,760 and 1,254 shares of Du Pont common stock...