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Under the wage scales set up by national mediation, brotherhood men were long the aristocrats of U.S. labor. Even since the decline of the railroads began two decades ago and wage scales began rising in other industries, they are still substantial, well-paid citizens with economic views well to the right of center. On Class I roads full-time engineers average $288 a month, conductors $267, firemen $220. They own their own homes, pay taxes, send their children to college. Many a railroad man votes the straight Republican ticket...
...Hollywood quickie expert would envy the average Mexican budget of $25,000 to $30,000 for a feature. Favorites such as the three Soler brothers (Fernando, Domingo and Julian), Joaquín Pardave, "Caninflas" (Mario Moreno) consider themselves well-paid at $2,000 a picture. When a producer is ready to shoot he can hire a complete crew from the CTM union on a contract calling for 50% of the minimum union salaries to be paid during production, the remainder after distribution. In addition, the crew gets 33% of the net profits. The films almost bank themselves...
...well-paid job and one that Janet Planner soon liked so well that she gave up cocktails, developed a working method as scholarly as a Ph.D.'s. Her letters were laid out a week in advance, researched by herself and an informal staff of friends, checked thoroughly, painfully polished in draft after draft. Among her best friends were (and are) Margaret Anderson and Jane Heap, publishers of the once-famed Little Review in Greenwich Village. Last Christmas she spent with her mother and her sister, Poet Hildegarde Planner, at Altadena, Calif. Last week she stopped in Manhattan...
...home fires burning-somewhere-had their troubles too. On to hard-driven wives of low-pay workers went the added strain of higher food and clothing prices. They simply did with even less amusements, scarce anyway since the blackouts. Toughest economic time of all was had by wives of well-paid business and professional men called to the colors or the Government, or dismissed from their civilian positions. Their domestic overhead was out of all proportion to Army or civil service pay, and if the husband had no job at all, there was nothing to do but draw on savings...
...this is velvet, of course. The Major has a big and well-paid staff of 65, pays salaries of $50 to $100 a week to unit performers (now numbering about 100), foots the bill for musicians, producers, coaches, unit booking, management and traveling expenses. To each of the 20 or so amateurs chosen each week for the broadcast from among 500 selected applications he gives $10 and all the performer can eat on the evening of the broadcast. The Major's net is a secret closely guarded by the Major and his militantly loyal staff, but radio is agreed...