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Employers will be required to pay a bonus to all employes at a rate which the Government will vary according to variations in the cost of living. But no employer, without special permission, may increase the basic wage rate he pays...
...confident was Harry Edwards last week that he prepared to pay his 150 employes a 10% wage bonus. The old A. & N.C. stock was quoted at $40-up 700% since Edwards took over...
...case of Evelyn Duncan was a distinctly British variation of a distinctly Russian folk tune. In one week 21-year-old Evelyn made the amazing number of 6,150 shell components. She was given a bonus for her speedup. With it she bought 25 of Winston Churchill's favorite cigars, marked their box with the inscription: "From Evelyn Duncan, holder of the world's munition record." As the Prime Minister toured Birmingham's bombed areas, she ran through a police cordon, handed Winnie the cigars, kissed his hand. Said Winnie, gruffly: "Thank you very much, my dear...
...months ago the Vermont Legislature passed a law requiring the State to pay a bonus of $10 a month to any Vermont citizen in the armed service of the U.S. in time of war. One day last week State Representative Donald H. Norton, veteran of World War I, chairman of the House Military Affairs Committee, introduced a resolution that the bonus should be paid immediately, on the ground that President Roosevelt's recent shooting order to the Navy was in effect a declaration of "armed conflict" with the Axis...
...long letter from an Americanophile, old Etonian and journalist, Philip Hewitt-Myring, which the august London Times played up on its editorial page. Said he: Roosevelt is no dictator, has plenty of opposition in the U.S. Under the circumstances Britain should regard any U.S. aid as a "bonus." "From this fools' paradise, however, in which we supposed that all we have to do is to keep Hitler at bay until American deliveries win the war for us, we must imperatively and immediately depart...