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...equally openhanded with his employees, pays them the highest factory wages in the Far East, knows as many as 2,000 by name. They get a free 100-lb. monthly ration of rice, free medical care, lifelong pensions, and have a commissary with the cheapest prices in Manila. When a toy shortage developed just before Christmas, Soriano dispatched a special P.A.L. plane to Hong Kong to pick up a load of toys for his employees' children...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: King of the Islands | 8/27/1951 | See Source »

Many find the rambling campus the best, and certainly cheapest, place to spend a day or evening. Lake Waban spreads out along the edge of the grounds, and according to one campus corp, "we don't care what goes on there as long as you're quiet about it." No alcohol is allowed on campus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Highway Haunts, Lakeside Luxuries Supply Entertainment for Travellers | 5/12/1951 | See Source »

...with all the outlying beauty of the countryside, and the attractive eating places, the most efficient way of satisfying a Smith girl is still the cheapest--have her show you Paradise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Smithites Seek Males, Fine Food on Weekend | 4/12/1951 | See Source »

Russia has moved in on the low-priced car market in Western Europe. Her Moskvich was a big hit at the Brussels auto show. A four-cylinder four-seater, its radiator cap flaunting a red star, the Moskvich sold fast at $978, much the cheapest car at the show. For this quo, plus some gram and minerals, Russia's quid, under a trade treaty with Belgium, included sheet steel, copper, electrical equipment, and $150,000 worth of herring...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Moskvich | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...hold down the price of his cars. But last week, seeing a flood of price rises all around him, young Henry took his finger out of the hole in the dike. He boosted prices on the company's 1951 models an average of 5.5% (from $87.50 on the cheapest Ford to $185 on Lincoln Cosmopolitan convertibles). Same day, General Motors Corp. raised prices an average of almost 5% on its 1951 models. These were the first price boosts among the auto industry's Big Three in nearly two years. The reason, said both companies, was simply that their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRICES: We Cannot Accept ... | 12/18/1950 | See Source »

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