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Andy Hardy. Four more Hardy pictures were made and Mickey found himself with an income of some $1,000 a week and $10,000 bonus per picture. In rapid succession he acquired a list of good things that would stagger the imagination of the dreamiest moppet in the highest hayloft on the hottest day. Items: a ranch, a race horse, a twelve-room home, 19 radios, a jazz band, two dogs, the junior singles tennis championship of the Pacific Southwest, a wardrobe like Clark Gable's, two automobiles, a hideaway apartment in Beverly Hills, a football team, a colored...
...Field Marshal, hoping to induce farmers to produce more and consume less, upped the price of butter 8? a pound, of milk 1? a quart and promised a bonus of $40 for every idle German acre brought under cultivation. Goring insisted that next year's root crop yield must be 10% to 15% over last year's, which was the highest ever. "Do not betray the faith we have in you, German farmer, to provide food for us," appealed the Field Marshal. "I give you a slogan for the production battle of 1940: Now more than ever! Ours...
...months old in the major leagues, but his batting average (.302) in the 55 games he had played with the Tigers convinced most observers that he was the McCoy himself. Within 24 hours of his freedom, Rookie McCoy had bids from ten major-league clubs. Washington offered him a bonus of $20,000 to become a Senator. The Giants hiked it to $25,000, the Dodgers to $35,000, the Pirates and Reds...
Last week, much-sought-after Benny McCoy (who got $15 for his first season in organized baseball and thought his $5,000 last year was big money) proved he could count. He accepted the Philadelphia Athletics' offer: a $45,000 bonus, a two-year contract at $10,000 a year, an assured job at second base under the tutorial eye of old Cornelius McGillicuddy (Connie Mack). His was not only the biggest bonus in baseball history ($20,000 more than the previous top, given Rick Ferrell by the Browns in 1929), but it made Rookie McCoy the highest-paid...
...problem no longer to Mrs. J. Borden Harriman, the German Navy, and Russian and Norwegian authorities, the freighter City of Flint was safe home in Baltimore at week's end. With three months' pay and a bonus in their shoregoing pants, safe were her seamen in "Mae's Tavern," "Joe's Place" and the "Jolly Spot." Home was the sailor, with yarns to tell...