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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Succeeding governments have tinkered further with the law. As it stands now, at least 10% of net profits must be divided among employees according to their rate of pay. The bonus may not exceed two months' pay. Most prosperous employers consider one month's pay a minimum, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiesta! | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Not yet law, but having the force of law, is the unwritten custom that the bonus should be spent before New Year's. That gave the workers a fine sense of irresponsibility, permitted some businessmen to get back in trade more than they had paid in profit-sharing, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fiesta! | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The Rams. Thanks solely to such private contributions, Tecnológico last week was setting the pace for Monterrey, Mexico's fastest growing (pop. 280,000) industrial center (steel, glass, paint). On the tree-shaded, 148-acre campus, some of the 1,365 students were settling down in a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: M. I. T. | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

The strangest thing was Marchand's color. The paintings in his previous exhibition (TIME, May 26, 1947) had reflected the cool hues of the Burgundy forest. Lately Marchand, like Van Gogh before him, had made a pilgrimage to Arles and developed a new palette there. Reds, phosphorescent greens and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Over the Wall | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

Most of the pictures on the walls looked like more or less distorted reflections of each other. Jackson Pollock's nonobjective snarl of tar and confetti, entitled No. 14, was matched by Willem DeKooning's equally fashionable and equally blank tangle of tar and snow called Attic. If...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Handful of Fire | 12/26/1949 | See Source »

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