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...subsidy would be based on the extent to which cotton growers 1) replaced cotton with other crops; 2) mechanized farms to cut costs. Thus, Southern farmers would have a cash incentive to cut down cotton acreage, produce cotton cheaply enough to stand on its own competitive feet. As a clincher, Wickard would end the subsidy in five or ten years, cut cotton growers completely from the public purse...
Furthermore, many a thoughtful businessman has long believed that top managers should have a greater tangible stake in their companies, i.e., a sizeable stock interest. The new stock option plans are regarded by many as a step in that direction. As a clincher, Wall Streeters point out also that before any recipient of a stock option can benefit, all the other stockholders must benefit also. Said one, summing up the whole question: "If you believe in the incentive system what other incentive can you give them but money...
...Clincher. In Washington, a notice" was posted on the Boiling Field bulletin board : "i. Effective this date, no liquor or other intoxicating beverages will be introduced into barracks. Infractions will result in disciplinary action. 2. All unnecessary drunkenness will not be tolerated also...
Democrats tried to dismiss Kentucky's clincher as "local issues." The New York Times's Arthur Krock, who used to live in the Fourth himself, judiciously summed up: "If the result did not foreshadow a certain Republican victory next year, it increased the prospect...
...learned from him the technique of the freehanded overstatement. Later, May took a two-week course in "business engineering," and went to work as an efficiency expert. Soon he was a crack salesman of efficiency systems and able to set up for himself in Chicago in 1925. His sales clincher: "If you will let us put in a production-control system, about all you will have to do, Mr. President, is come down and open the mail and go home...