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...tough job to write readable, interesting cases, while distributing the clues in a logical and subtle manner. Particularly complex is the problem of disclosing the identity of the company involved. There was one episode where the installation of a bonus system in a factory had been delayed seven years because the English foreman knew he would be unable to explain to his wife why he brought home different amounts of pay each week. Here, the personality of the foreman was the key to the case; yet the instance would have seemed too fantastic to be true, and might have revealed...
...exponent during 22 of the 25 years he ran the St. Louis Cardinals: the general managership of the Brooklyn Dodgers; succeeding extravagant, rollicking Larry MacPhail, his onetime protégé; for a five-year term; at a reported salary of $40,000, plus a bonus. The new Brooklyn boss has never watched a ball game on Sunday...
There are, however, apparent exceptions to this rule, he added, citing the case of the Jack and Heintz Company, which was making enormous war profits, paying a secretary a $39,000 bonus and giving wrist watches to its employees...
...Logic. The farm bloc, at 100% parity, had by law the right to receive as high a relative price for their products as they received in a favorable period 30 years ago. Now they wanted a 12% bonus above this; and wanted 90% parity prices guaranteed them by Government loans. If there were a loss, the Government, meaning the U.S. people, would take it; if there were a profit, the top-drawer farmers would absorb...
...whatever it could take out of an abandoned, high-cost pit. Last week WPB went further, let it be known that henceforth it will allow all the big companies to negotiate prices on a mine-by-mine basis, will give them a fighting chance to get in on a bonus by stepping up the output from individual shafts...