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...expenditures, highest in the state's history. Recognizing the need for higher salaries for teachers, he adopted a new scale which was the highest in the nation (but still somewhat less than the teachers had asked). He approved a referendum on a veterans' bonus which would cost the state $400 million, plus interest...
Actually, compared with the living standard of other Germans, Josef's is a pampered lot. Besides receiving top rations, he can buy a lunch of vegetable soup with a little meat at the mine daily. If he fulfills his production quota, increased under a speedup bonus system introduced in January, Josef gets extra ration cards entitling him to buy a pound and a half of bacon, a pound of coffee, a half-pound of sugar, two bottles of schnapps and 100 cigarets, as well as some clothing and household goods. Other Germans in the Ruhr have not even been...
...tried to wrest the rifle from the nearest cop. Another gendarme smashed his rifle butt into the attacker's face. Thousands of throats roared defiance of the police and the Government. Belgium, the European belligerent to recover most rapidly after the war, last week was having a bonus-hungry veterans' riot...
...allay police unrest the Prefecture of Police asked the Government to approve a twelve-franc (10^) bonus for every policeman who reports a street accident...
...boost of $1.40 a day, plus more production. The extra 40?, he said, must come from an increased Government subsidy since a higher coal price would "interfere most gravely with effective transition to a peacetime economy." But the miners thumbed down the recommendation as a "mere incentive bonus...