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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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...