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...agent of the society looked into the larder of one middle-aged couple, found "two apples, one quarter of a melon, and about a cup of beans." Said the wife: "If we could just once get enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OHIO: Enough to Eat | 1/8/1940 | See Source »

...majority of its 67,000 employes, last week big General Electric Co. cut a $4,750,000 holiday melon. The melon consisted of two parts. Under its profit-sharing plan,* instituted in 1934, employes of five or more years' service shared $2,400,000 (compared to $556,800 last year). Under the three-year-old plan of adjusting wages to the cost of living (U. S. Department of Labor Index), employes shared another $2,350,000 (almost $1,000,000 less than 1938). Together, the two bonuses add 5-75% to employes' earnings for 1939's last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Melons for Workers | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

...Melon-headed Son Bruno Mussolini, 21, whose sporting feats include bombing (Abyssinians and Spaniards), automobile racing and transatlantic hopping, won another prize. At Riccione, Italy, driving the favorite in a trotting race, he came in first, was awarded 4,000 lire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Aug. 7, 1939 | 8/7/1939 | See Source »

...Richman brothers began to sell stock to employes, usually at one-half the market price. Best of these melon-cuttings was the first. Employes were offered shares at $16.67 (market price $42) and, before workers had finished paying for it, it paid dividends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANUFACTURING: Daddy | 6/26/1939 | See Source »

...Bald, melon-headed John L. Lotsch, former Brooklyn banker and thriving patent lawyer until sentenced to prison on a bribery conviction of his own, testified that he procured $50,000 in loans for Judge Manton (later repaid) and paid $5.000 more to Bag-Man Fallon. Lotsch always got favorable decisions from Judge Manton. In addition, Lotsch's bank received deposits from receivers Judge Manton had appointed-one of whom, Milton C. Weisman, is law partner of Democratic Congressman Emmanuel Celler...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Not a Pretty Story | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

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