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What does the Weather Man look like? Most people curse him; few visualize him. Last week, on the Du Mont Network (Mon.-Fri., 6:05 p.m.), televiewers got a good look at the Weather...
...efforts to halt rising prices, and his coalition government fell, the situation might be beyond the power of any new coalition to solve. That would almost certainly mean an early showdown between the two challenging opposites in France today-Charles de Gaulle's super-party, Rassemblement du Peuple Français, and the Communists. The end of Schuman might mean the end of parliamentary rule as France had known...
Last week Charbonneau sounded off again. He told La Société des Editeurs Canadiens du Livre Français: "It is by being Canadians and proud of it that our writers will assert themselves. . . . While modern French literature is in full decadence, while its techniques are obsolete . . . why should our younger writers continue to tie themselves exclusively...
...biggest tycoon of the lot, E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.'s Walter S. Carpenter Jr., took time to write the longest letter, four single-spaced pages packed with some hard sense about salaries. What it came down to, Carpenter told Complainant Benson, was this: How much did the company profit on the high-priced executives-and how much were they worth in the going market? As for Du Pont executives, he wrote: "I believe competitors . . . would be willing to pay . . . as much. . . . I believe the company's interest is better served by paying that compensation than...
Taxes were so high, said Carpenter, that a raise in salary from $50,000 to $100,000 a year gives a man an actual increase of only $12,000, and leaves him a spendable total of $38,000. If the salaries of Du Pont's nine executive committeemen (the top management) were completely eliminated, said he, it would add only 9.3? per share to the company's earnings (some $113,000,000 in 1947). Carpenter then checked his present salary ($175,000) against what he earned 25 years ago ($78,570). He found that present taxes leave...