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...jump on everybody by recruiting over seas, now had 1,250,000 members (one million of them brand new) and two mil lion dollars in the bank. But it still wanted only men with foreign service, and it took no women. Its biggest attraction was an extravagant bonus plan to be pushed in Congress: $3 for each veteran's day of home service; $4 for each overseas day; a flat $500 for a wound; a maximum bonus of $4,500. But the V.F.W. had yet to de clare its willingness to let the youngsters take over...
Meanwhile some Los Angeles tenants with apartments to sublet sought bribes more greedily than the fattest landlord of fiction-one asked and got a $750 bonus for subletting a $100 apartment for six months...
...flight pay similarly regulated. Under the present system there were incongruities, e.g.: "Hap" Arnold drew $4,000 a year more salary (by flight pay) than his boss, Chief of Staff Marshall. Three flying generals, with four stars, drew as much as or more than Five-Star Marshall, whose only bonus was an occasional morsel of overseas pay (at 10%). Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, rated a naval aviator, until V-J day added 10% "sea pay" to his base pay by living aboard the yacht Dauntless in Anacostia's mud, but he spurned the chance to collect 50% more...
...these humiliations Lou Ruppel bore patiently. He could afford to: his two-year contract (including a $10,000 bonus for signing) totaled $90,000. Last week, with 13 months of Ruppel's contract still to run, Hearst had been unable to humiliate Ruppel into quitting. Hearst finally...
Philadelphia, starting its plan later, has added a couple of refinements, including a teacher who is himself a former lieutenant colonel. Veterans, in their separate school, are allowed to smoke in class. They are given a starting bonus of one credit in physical education (because they've had G.I. exercise) and one-half unit in social science for having gone through Army or Navy indoctrination courses. The 39 now enrolled (ranks: private through captain) cram 30 hours of classwork and 30 hours of homework into each week, which will allow them to complete a year's schooling...