Word: bonuses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...experiment clearly proved that tethered spaceships can orbit in formation without wasting fuel. Robert Gilruth, director of NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center, immediately conjured up "colonies of vehicles fastened together in ways like this." The slow rotation of the system also provided a bonus: a small centrifugal force that acted like a weak gravitational pull, causing objects to drift toward and finally "fall" on the rear wall of Gemini's cabin. It was the first artificial gravity created during a manned orbital flight. After three hours of tethered orbiting, Conrad flipped a switch that jettisoned Gemini...
...intended to drive manpower from the service industries, which have attracted seven times as many workers as other branches of industry since 1960, and channel them into manufacturing, thereby increasing desperately needed exports. This is to be done by taxing service industries for each employee and giving a bonus to manufacturing industries for each employee...
...Stars were strangers, of course. Donny ("Do Everything") Anderson, a triple-threat halfback from Texas Tech, had signed a $600,000 contract with Green Bay, and Illinois Fullback Jim Grabowski was a $300,000 Packer bonus baby. If anything, that only made it harder on them; the Packers were in no mood to play favorites-particularly with rich rookies who soon would be trying to take their jobs away...
Last week, just as practice for the 1966 season got under way, the N.F.L.'s Detroit Lions were trying to cope with a mass training-camp holdout by veterans demanding pay increases that would put them on a par with untried bonus rookies. Among the balkers: All-N.F.L. Guards John Gordy and Ted Karras, Ends Darris McCord and Ron Kramer, Flanker Pat Studstill, and Defensive Back Bruce Maher. The Baltimore Colts were minus their two top pass receivers, Raymond Berry and Jimmy Orr, and the St. Louis Cardinals had two holdouts: Center Bob DeMarco and Split End Sonny...
...upwards of $27 million, Newhouse got the two papers, some choice downtown real estate consisting of a highly automated modern printing plant that he says is a "jewel" and, as an added bonus, the Pascagoula (Miss.) Chronicle (circ. 10,050). The deal also included half-interest in Mobile's WKRG and WKRG-TV, which means that the FCC must give its approval before the bargain is finally sealed...