Word: paychecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chug-Chug, the cleanup man, Williams stayed in full public view while skirting the intricate web of Navy bureaucracy. He never drew a paycheck. He made enough money for shaving gear and an occasional movie by setting up pins in the bowling alley. Sometimes, he gave a helping hand to a buddy who worked in a supply center across from the base stacking goods...
Later, in conversation, Muñoz remembered something else about the day: "You know, when they inaugurated me I had $17 in the bank. I had to tell them to get me out a paycheck right away." Muñoz has never cared about money, and his present salary ($10,600 a year) is the largest he has ever earned; before his election he was living on his $94 weekly wage as an editor of the daily newspaper Diario de Puerto Rico...
...kidding? The awards themselves have been made by a majority-vote of all the writers, electricians, actors, photographers, etc., who had five-dollars for dues. These men and women are employed by a studio which makes movies. In order to assure the continuation of his paycheck, the employee would logically vote at least one film award to his studio, and perhaps the straight ticket if he's a good man. Even if he's only allowed by his union to spray cob-webs in studio haunted houses, he's wise enough to know the immense exploitation value in an Academy...
...need to worry about losing Jergens' $390,000 a year. His network, ABC, rushed in and signed him to a $520,000-a-year contract (to prevent him from going to CBS), promised to turn over anything extra that another sponsor might want to pay. The new paycheck, even without his newspaper earnings, puts Winchell near the top of the Treasury's list of U.S. wage earners. But Winchell was rueful: "I don't give a damn about the money. I won't get any of it, anyhow. I'd have stayed if they...
...week after the Senate confirmed his appointment, bespectacled FCChairman Wayne Coy was settled comfortably in the chair he had been occupying since Dec. 27. He liked his new job all right, but not his paycheck ($10,000 a year). By quitting as radio director of the Washington Post and chief of its radio station WINX, he had taken a "terrific slash" in salary, "more than...