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...Sociologist. He had opinions about labor. In 1914, the country was flabbergasted when he established an unheard-of minimum $5-a-day wage and a profit-sharing scheme. Good pay makes good workers, he said. Well-paid workers could buy more cars. So many thousands stormed his gates for jobs that Ford officials had fire hoses turned on them. But there were moral strings attached to the profit-sharing. He appointed the dean of St. Paul's to see that the money went into wholesome food, Ford cars, etc.-not into liquor and riotous living...
...worker in the steaming jungles of eastern Ecuador, Shell's withdrawal would mean the end of jobs well-paid by Ecuadorian standards. Roughly $1,500,000 in salaries have gone to native employees annually; the national budget amounts to only $20,000,000 a year. To the importer in Ecuador it would mean the loss of at least 10% of the country's already scarce dollar exchange. To Ecuador as a whole it would mean the end of a cherished dream...
...from his rival, Colonel McCormick. Field invited Caniff to his apartment at 740 Park Avenue, blandly asked him: "What do you want?" Caniff hardly needed to answer: ownership of copyright. "I'm out to emancipate you," smiled Field. Then he added comfortably: "I imagine you're a well-paid slave...
Last week the baron and about 130 of his brainy countrymen were at Sukhum, on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Well-fed, well-paid and well-treated, they live in a comfortable manor house, surrounded by palm trees and fragrant eucalyptus gardens. A mile away is their laboratory, where they work with a roughly equal number of Russian colleagues on an intensive program of atomic research...
...Russians lost for basic economic and ideological reasons. For over a year the wealth of the West has poured into western Germany. Around $200 million worth of food was shipped in to feed the Germans cut off from normal food supplies by the Russian boundary. Nearly a million well-paid, well-fed British and U.S. troops aroused the envy (if sometimes the dislike) of the Germans...