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...picked up in Hungary). In the old days before the clatter-clang of modern machinery, he hired a pianist to relieve the workers' tedium. Last year, on top of above-average wages, the company set aside $466,249 for its employes (including old-age benefits and a Christmas bonus of $3 times the years of an employe's service). But this welfare capitalism has paid dividends: many a manufacturer envies Beech-Nut's labor relations...
...Princeton University produced the Veterans of Future Wars--a bold, clever satire on bonus-grabbing and incidentally on the futility...
When tall, young (35), Latin-looking Frank Riggio quit American Tobacco Co. in 1937 to go in business for himself, cigaretmen thought he was crazy. His father, Vincent Riggio, was a vice president of American Tobacco, a favored member of its famous bonus system. And Frank had only $2,500 to back his own idea, which was to make the first popular blended King-size cigaret. By last week this had proved the best new idea in the tobacco business since the 10? brands. But its chief beneficiary was not Frank Riggio. It was American Tobacco...
...bonus programs this year, the Harvard Film Society yesterday revealed that it will show several foreign and American propaganda movies early in April...
...Perkins scheme: farmers who wish to plant less than their 1941 AAA acreage allotments will receive a bonus of stamps, good for cotton products at any retail store. The bonus: $25 in stamps for each acre voluntarily put out of production. Estimated cost of the scheme: $50,000,000. By cutting production and upping consumption in one stroke, the plan would attack King Cotton's trouble from both ends, put the two more nearly into balance...