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...advocated by Senator Melvin Gassaway Ashton in Hollywood's The Senator Was Indiscreet. Ashton's other campaign promises: a $5,000 bonus for everyone who did not serve in the war, refund of all income taxes, with interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tides of Mediocrity | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...rich reds on a 30-ft. expanse of wall (see cut). His mural will depict the inauguration of Liberators Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Paula Santander at Rosário de Cúcuta in 1821. If he finished on time there would be a bonus: two jugs of whiskey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Latin America: Interior Decorator | 12/29/1947 | See Source »

Gottwald got off a call for help to Stalin. Last week the answer came back by wire. Stalin promised Czechs that not only would they get the 200,000 tons of grain promised last summer as a bonus for boycotting the Marshall Plan but an additional 200,000 tons as well. The Russian grain would be delivered by next April-before election time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Bread, Votes & Treason | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...France's labor troubles last week brought a few more days of life. They were murderers, condemned to die by the guillotine. The official executioner, Jules Desfourneaux, went on a one-man strike and refused to execute them. Desfourneaux was holding out for a 15% raise and a bonus for each severed head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Incentive Pay | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

When young (34) Edward W. Carter went to work for Los Angeles' Broadway Department Store, Inc. two years ago, he intended to move cautiously; a $50,000-a-year (plus bonus) executive, he thought, ought not to seem impulsive. On his second day, he started on a leisurely tour of the company's Pasadena branch and what he saw made him jump. The floors were laid out poorly, the sales fixtures outmoded. "My God," groaned Ed Carter, "the fellows who laid out the Pasadena store are laying out the new Broadway-Crenshaw." The Crenshaw, seven miles southwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETAIL TRADE i: Broadway Opening | 12/8/1947 | See Source »

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