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...League made rules. No college player could play professionally until his class had graduated from college. As for money, visiting teams are to receive some 32%, of gross receipts, the remainder to be apportioned between the home team owners and players with a sort of bonus for high ranking at the end of the season. The football League rules are identical with those of the respective baseball Leagues save that the word "football" is substituted for "baseball" throughout. And as its overlord, sits a man whose mountainous bulk overhung last week's conference- William Hanford ("Big Bill") Edwards...
...Miller & Co. Inc. is that of many building investors throughout the country. A man has an itch to build. He borrows $100,000 at 7% interest and, because his credit is insecure, he pays a 10% bonus. For the sake of $90,000-which is paid out to him as he must compensate the building trades-he pays $17,000 in interest for the first year. This is practically 19% on the $90,000 he actually gets. The second year, and thereafter, he pays $7,000 interest on the $90,000, or 7.7%. Then, when his building is completed...
That sweetening of labor which is a salary bonus sifted unexpectedly and in unusual ways upon three working groups last week. In Manhattan, each employe of the First National Bank discovered one morning a novel mid-year gift, an unexpected bonus equal to his entire year's salary. At the end of a year every bank employe expects some kind of bonus. It is his wage gamble against usually meagre salaries. This bonus was different. It was the personal gift of the bank's board chairman, George Fisher Baker, to 148 clerks and junior officers. It approximated...
...points to the player driving his ball within it; the next largest, eight points; a third, seven points. On the par-5 holes there were systems of circles for second-shots to reach. At the greens, the cup was the bull's-eye and there was a special bonus for holing shots from off the putting surface...
...University, in writing a journalistic style, and in learning the machinery of Harvard, in a manner not to be equalled elsewhere. Each candidate is a reporter, pursuing the same methods employed upon metropolitan dailies. Credit is given for each story written with extra credit for scoops, and a bonus for high scholarship...