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...Hour Bonus. So far Hollinger has had no trouble recruiting workers, mostly Newfoundlanders and French Canadians. They eat well, pay $1.25 a day for food that costs the company $4.50. They work twelve-hour shifts, around the clock, six days a week, make from 70#162; to $1.30 (top driller pay) an hour. For those who stay for six months-most of them do-there is a 10#162;-an-hour bonus. Because they are in to make a stake, they get along without liquor or movies, take their fun in recreation hut sessions with harmonicas, jew's-harps...
...triumphantly carried a captured broom from the fray. At week's end, the street cleaners scornfully rejected an offer of a 10,000-lire bonus, held out for 15,000, Palmiro Togliatti appeared in the Chamber of Deputies. He wore his suavest air and his famous blue, double-breasted serge suit. Said he piously: "Parliament is the center of democratic life and it is bound to a concept of tolerance between men who fight for their own ideas...
...director, Tony Palazzo, from Coronet; a new men's fashion editor, Bert Bacharach; and a women's fashion editor, Mrs. Taube Coller Davis ("Tobe"), who runs a style advisory service for retailers. To pep up its fiction, Collier's now awards a $1,000 bonus to the author of each issue's "star story...
...strings at all to the offer. Last fortnight, FTC accused the Book-of-the-Month Club, the Literary Guild of America and four other book publishers of "false, misleading and deceptive" advertising because they offered "free" books to anyone who subscribed. Also wrong, charged FTC, were such terms as "bonus books'" and ''book dividends...
Success has given him just a touch of sophistication. The Phillies signed him up three years ago, after his one semester in junior college, for a bonus of $4,500. "I was just a kid then," he says, "and didn't know what the score was." Last week, after taking his Dad to Chicago's 606 Club (a striptease joint), he remarked offhandedly: "I've seen better in Boston...