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...purpose of the Cotton Acreage Reduction Program, launched in 1933 and continued last year. The landowner pledged himself "insofar as possible, [to] maintain on this farm the number of tenants and other employes," which he had maintained in the past. He was also supposed to pass along pro rata the share croppers' share of the reduction benefit payments...
...This new western manufacturing group, with headquarters at Seattle, Wash., will have as president Claire L. Egtvedt. chief engineer of Boeing since 1918, vice president & general manager since 1926. The reorganization, already approved by the board of directors, will be effected by an exchange of stock on a pro-rata basis. That it will be approved at a special stockholders' meeting June 20 is likely because it was originally recommended by the stockholders' protective committee formed last April under the chairmanship of George Brokaw Compton. Salaries of new officers will be limited to $10,000, bonuses will...
...came from Kakisalmi, Finland to Ontario, where he is a carpenter in the Frood Mine, at Sudbury. When he finished second last year in the Boston Marathon-hardest and oldest (37 years) in the U. S.- Komonen was asked if he would try again. Aloof and taciturn, he answered "Rata auki!" ("Clear the track!"). Last summer he won marathons at Washington and Toronto. Last week, before returning to the mine at Sudbury, he received a marathon winner's usual reward: a medal and a laurel wreath-presented to him by Boston's Mayor Frederick W. Mansfield...
...there be more than one group each bargain committee shall have total membership pro rata to the number of men each member represents...
Although rooms in the Yard have not been reduced because they are on a pro-rata basis and only the House rooms were affected by the 12 and one-half percent reduction in April, the board in the Union has been set at $8 instead of $9 for last year...