Word: bonuses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand in the third quarter, and Beathard came in to complete seven out of ten passes. On defense, the Chiefs are so rich that they cannot find a regular slot for their No. 1 draft choice of 1965-Minnesota Lineman Aaron Brown, who signed for a $300,000 bonus. Or maybe they're taking pity on their opponents. Brown stands 6 ft. 5 in. and weighs...
...rank 13th out of the 15 teams in the National Football League in total offense, 13th in passing, and 15th in punting. They do not have a man among the league's top ten pass receivers, and they have only one among the top ten rushers: $300,000 Bonus Rookie Johnny Roland, who is No. 9. Their quarterback, Charley Johnson, stands No. 7 among N.F.L. passers, and, against the Chicago Bears last week, he completed four out of 16 tosses for 47 yds. The only thing in which the St. Louis team leads the league is, well, leading...
...Europe nearly everyone gets a bonus to compensate him for the added costs of a wife, a child, a dependent parent, or unpleasant working conditions. Italians are paid $8.40 a month extra for each child, also collect supplements if they work at an open-hearth furnace, at a high altitude, or in an old malarial zone, though malaria has seldom struck since Mussolirii drained the swamps. The Belgians get extras to cover the cost of commuting by train, and the hardy Dutch, who cycle to work, are given "bike money...
...Christmas, Continental workers commonly collect a bonus of one, two or even three months...
Housewives' Target. The boycotting housewives had little interest in the complexities of economics or electronics, but they concentrated much of their ire on a most visible target: supermarket games. The cost of such come-ons as Bonus Bingo, Pot-O-Gold and Let's Go to the Races amounts to approximately two-thirds of 1% of supermarket sales-half as much as the profit margin for the industry. The marketers rationalize that the games are an expensive promotional nuisance, but that Mrs. America is attracted by them despite her protests. Said Clarence G. Adamy, president of the National...