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Cried Reuther: "C. E. Wilson [president of General Motors] in 1948 got $516,300 in salary and bonus. He made $258 an hour. General Motors will give him $25,000 a year when he is too old to work but too young to die ... If you make $1.65 an hour they say you don't need it... We say to American industry, if you can afford to pay pensions to people who don't need them, then by the eternal gods you are going to pay them to people who do need them-the guys in the shop...
...Government's guaranteed price for uranium oxide (U2O4) in sufficient concentration is $3.50 a lb. The AEC also pays a $10,000 bonus for a really good find...
Conservatism in politics never held a man back in the American Legion. And in the Legion, Louis Johnson reached the top in 1932, taking over in the unsettled era after the bonus march on Washington...
...that the West had learned how to get on with its work without getting on with the Russians. The lifting of the blockade had been proof of the West's success, the rebellion of the voters in Russia's Eastern Zone was a welcome and unexpected bonus. "I think perhaps we have a better opportunity . . . than we have had before," Acheson declared. "We most certainly are now in a better position to deal with the consequences of a failure . . . We cannot allow [our foreign policy] to become subject to the fluctuations produced by a raising and lowering...
...Bargain? When Fox loses its own theaters, a bigger take will be important. In rural areas, movies are now sold for flat rentals. Under the new system there will be sliding rates, with exhibitors getting a bonus when box-office receipts are big. Lichtman thinks this will encourage longer runs for good pictures, hence benefit producer as well as exhibitor...