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...trend, the Army can only hope for a big influx of high-school graduates (who are less enthusiastic about volunteering since the end of the draft) and a new recruiting bill now before Congress. The bill would permit enlistments of between two and six years, with a $50 annual bonus for indefinite "career" re-enlistments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Troubles | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Scouts from 13 big-league ball clubs (only Detroit, Cleveland and the Philadelphia Athletics were unrepresented) will probably be around for Bob's graduation in June, when he will be fair game. They will be willing to pay him a fat bonus-maybe as high as $25,000-for deciding to sign up with a big-league team. Right now Bob Hansen is indicating no preference, but as a matter of pure sentiment he has always been a New York Giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: June Hunt | 6/2/1947 | See Source »

Henaff reasoned with the workers. He told them they could have a bonus, but no wage raise that would wreck the price policy which the Communists and all parties were supporting. A storm of boos almost drowned the end of his speech...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Crisis | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Hackett, who knows that "a good school is a band of devoted, capable teachers," is offering prospective teachers a bonus: homes for their families in a new faculty apartment house on the school site. Architects' plans call for an ultramodern, glass-&-concrete schoolhouse, gym, auditorium and chapel. Right now the World School consists of one flagpole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Tomorrow's Children? | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

Also on the ballot were a music center, an enlarged infirmary and the monument, but 92 independents took advantage of their write-in privileges and came up with such original suggestions as a veterans bonus and an endowed liquor establishment...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: College Favors Utilitarian Memorial; U.S. to Ship Summer Groups Abroad | 5/9/1947 | See Source »

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