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...went broke at Jack & Heintz. The assistant controller, who had left a $2,300 job got a salary of $4,800 and, to his "complete surprise" a bonus of $10,000 after less than two months. The controller got a $7,500 salary; with bonuses made $25,153.32 in 1941. Other employe bonuses, records showed, added up to some $600,000. Mr. Jack held monthly banquets, gave double-time pay for Saturdays. Last Christmas everyone got a wrist watch, a $2,500 insurance policy, and cash presents ranging from...
...they had earned their pay-$600 a month plus a $500 bonus for every Jap shot down. In Kunming they could spend it easily-for cigarets at $2.80 a pack, for Scotch at $45 a bottle, for cheese at $12 a pound, for tooth paste at $4 a tube. In Burma there was nothing to spend it for, except cables to the folks at home. For that they spent...
...shot punters, the race was a bonanza. Those who had played the field got $32.80 for $2. Those who picked Best Seller to finish second got $53.20. It was also a great day for handsome John Gaver, Mrs. Whitney's college-bred trainer, who got a $5,000 bonus for saddling the winner. Gaver had had no intention of starting The Rhymer in such fast company. But when Samuel Riddle's War Relic was scratched the day before the race, leaving Jockey Eddie Arcaro without a mount, Gaver decided to take a chance. "It goes to show," said...
Industry crowded Washington with outstretched hands, begging for juicy contracts; labor leadels talked their heads off trying to organize every new plant in sight; Congress voted itself a fat bonus; Mrs. Roosevelt was handing out OCD jobs to her entertaining friends; Harvard undergraduates were kicking because they didn't get enough milk to drink; students of draft age were trying to move heaven and earth to escape the draft, come out with a commission, get a degree, or a combination of the three. That was the news of last week--and of all the weeks before, going right back...
...year Claire Chennault came home and with President Roosevelt's consent began to organize A.V.G. Air Corps and Navy pilots and flying students were allowed to resign to go to the defense of the vital Burma Road. Their promised pay: in action, $600 per month and a $500 bonus for every plane shot down (which with last week's total bag would run their take well past...