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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...factories, broad production gains were chalked up in farm machinery, trucks and autos, building materials, metals, clothing, textiles, chemicals and paper. Auto production in U.S. plants was up 3.6% over the week before to 131,584 cars, a pace that will send U.S. car output to its greatest June total in four years; truck volume rose to the best June level in eight years. Freight carloadings climbed 13.9% over the same week last year to reach the highest level in more than 19 months...
Heart of the new plan is a substantial increase in the base pay to 60% of total executive pay last year. Homer's new salary would be $306,749. On top of that, instead of a regular bonus, he and other executives would get special "dividend units," computed on the size of earnings and dividends, entitling them to receive dividends on the same basis as stockholders until 15 years after they retire (or to their estates if they died). Initially, these dividends would be small (e.g., Homer's share, based on 1958 figures, would have been only...
...result of a suit brought by seven minority stockholders, who complained that Bethlehem's brass is overpaid, the company proposed a new salary plan for stockholder approval July 28. If the plan had been in effect last year, it would have trimmed $2,200.000 from the total $6,058,226 pay of the top 20, made Homer, at $322,335, only the nation's ninth best-paid executive...
...biggest disappointment is the Mercutio of William Smithers, who has proven himself a good actor elsewhere. Here he is a total failure; and much of the blame must fall on director Landau. Not for nothing does Mercutio share five letters with Mercury; but there is nothing mercurial about Smithers' performance. Mercutio is an airy, sparkling, zestful, witty chap; Smithers is none of these. Too bad, for the role is so rich that it bids fair to top that of Romeo himself--wherefore Shakespeare had to kill him off on two counts...
Women at the Summer School--who are again expected to number about 40 per cent of the total enrollment--will continue to live in the Yard...