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...took his wife to the movies twice a month and walked in the park with his twelve-year-old daughter on Sundays. His simple political philosophy: "I worked 20-odd years, and management never did much for me. Now, since the revolution I got a pay increase, a bonus, and an old-age pension. Perón did that. I voted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Man on the Sidewalk | 5/27/1946 | See Source »

...moved out of the alley and into the regular avenues of trade. The pattern was uniformly ugly: the public not only tacitly approved of price cheating and shady dealings; it connived in them. In many a deal it was now the customer who suggested the "side money" bonus. Every community had its folklore and favorite practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PEOPLE: Scofflaws | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...Your Cake. In Fargo's Gardner Hotel they faced pressmen, autograph hunters, bobby-soxers. Clint Anderson took the floor to explain that U.S. wheat farmers could now combine the 30? bonus with the previously announced "certificate plan"-thus assuring them the best possible price for their wheat any time between now and March 1947, no matter when they sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOOD: Butch Goes West | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...executives. Under the plan, officers and key employes would be permitted to buy up to 464,000 shares of company stock at 25% below its market value, now $124, and pay for it with money borrowed from the company. By selling the stock, executives could get a quick bonus of nearly $12 million...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cause to Pause | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

...wouldn't most of the bonus go to taxes? Not at all. Stockholders were told by the board of directors: "It is believed that any profit . . . from resale of the stock would be taxable under capital-gains provisions [if held for six months] at a rate not over 25% ... in contrast to present higher tax rates applicable to ordinary income." So the stockholders gave the option plan an overwhelming vote of approval (5,300,000 shares...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cause to Pause | 4/29/1946 | See Source »

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