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...much do fringe benefits cost U.S. industry? No one knows exactly. This is the conclusion of Management Consultant Austin Fisher and John F. Chapman, associate editor of the Harvard Business Review, after a survey of 400 "handpicked" companies...
...band of bubblegum blowers from Schenectady, N.Y., who outlasted Colton, Calif, in the finals 7-5. Star of the game: Billy Masucci, twelve-year-old Schenectady pitcher, who smashed a two-run homer in the first inning, maintained his poise on the mound after beaning Colton's Harley Chapman (whose hand he shook in apology-see cut), struck out nine and allowed only four hits...
...order business, second biggest merchandising enterprise in the country, was a big job for any man . But Wolfson is used to big jobs. In 22 years he has parlayed a $5,000 investment into a $200 million industrial empire. Since 1949, he has bought control of the big Merritt-Chapman & Scott construction company, the Washington, D.C. street-transportation system, the New York Shipbuilding Corp., the 200-year-old paintmaking Devoe & Raynolds Co.. and a hatful of smaller concerns...
...gold for Wolfson. He and a group of friends bought control of Washington's Capital Transit for $20 a share, have since paid themselves about $30 a share in dividends, much of it from an accumulated surplus. By going after contracts aggressively, Wolfson boosted Merritt-Chapman's gross from $33 million in 1948 to $70 million in 1953. Dividends have gone up even faster, from an average of 51? a share in the four years before Wolfson took over to an average of $1.73 in the four years since. Two stock dividends of 40% and 25% were declared...
...after the death of Virgil Chapman, the man who defeated him in 1948, Cooper got an opportunity for another try at the Senate-again for a short two-year term. The Republican National Committee preferred to concentrate on states where the party seemed to have a better chance...