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...filled the void by starting France-Soir and making it France's biggest daily (TIME, June 23 1947). In 1948 Prouvost launched Match again. For two years it lost money, but gradually he picked up circulation and one of the best staffs in Europe. Now Match, has a well-paid, 120-man editorial staff and charges the highest advertising rate in France: $4,000 for a black and whit page, $5,140 for color. In 1951, still searching for a daily for himself, Prouvos bought control (49%) of Le Figaro, let its editors run the paper with a free...
After weeks of fruitless negotiation, 1,200 American pilots belonging to the A.F.L. Air Line Pilots Association went out on strike to protect the long-standing eight-hour rule. The well-paid airmen ($19,000 a year for a first pilot) claimed that the extra flying time was a threat to passenger safety. While its planes were grounded, American scrambled to find space on other airlines and trains for the 20,300 passengers it normally flies daily between 90 terminals on 385 flights. In Manhattan, American President C. R. Smith said that the strike was a clear breach of contract...
...guaranteeing mortgages and keeping interest rates low, it has helped build 4,450,000 housing units and kindled the great growth of the housing industry. Last year this industry accounted for 7% of the gross national product, directly provided jobs for 2,200,000 carpenters, painters, plumbers and other well-paid workers. Indirectly, it provided work for many more, since new houses swell the demand for washing machines, TV sets, carpets, sofas...
...Does this mean that every top executive ... is a lecherous old wolf? ... Of course it doesn't. Your graduates will be perfectly safe . . . But it does mean that your intelligent, attractive girl will have a well-paid job till she marries . . . Your lovely looker will move into a stuffy tycoon's office and unstuff the stuffy...
Eddy kept busy on the radio until 1949; then, instead of launching into TV, he went back to his first career: well-paid concert tours...