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...soon to return from the mud and foxholes of overseas combat will demand adequate incomes and assurance of continuous employment," Mordecai Johnson, President of Howard University, and guest preacher at Appleton Chapel, declared in an interview yesterday. "The returning serviceman will regard this security not as a bonus but as a prerogative implied when conscription itself went into effect...
During 1944, WPB's Management Consultant Division worked out incentive plans for some 1,000,000 workers, kept tab on what happened through spot checks of the plants. Result: production jumped an average of 40% within three months after the workmen began to get bonus pay for extra work...
Last fall he talked the Canadiens into promising him a bonus if the club led the National Hockey League at Christmas, another bonus if he was the league's leading scorer at that time. Then he put the deal on ice. With an occasional timely spurt of the old speed, and an aggressive instinct for team play, he fed a stream of passes to linemates Elmer Lach and Maurice Richard, by Christmas had piled up 19 assists and 15 goals. That gave him a one-point, bonus-earning edge over veteran Bill Cowley, the slick stick handler and playmaking...
Blake bagged his other bonus by another hairbreadth: the Canadiens squeezed through the holiday with a bare one-point, league-leading edge over the Detroit Red Wings. The Detroiters had been all but unbeatable in recent weeks, and looked like likely first-placers when they met the Canadiens in a midseason "crucial game" last week. Blake, Richard and Lach promptly busted that bubble; their eight goals and eight assists, with Right-Winger Richard going on a five-goal spree, added up to a crushing 9-to-1 victory...
...been so calm that millions did not know the union existed. But the Dayton local, like many others, had been quietly tapping its foot for months over an "emergency"' company practice. To lure operators to war-production centers, the company had offered an $18.25-a-week expense bonus to any transferring from smaller Ohio towns...