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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Check. In Kansas City, officials of the Excel Office Supply & Equipment Co. sought the man who paid for a check-protecting machine with a bum check...
This week, when its author returned from vacation, he had a new contract with the Sun-Times at $22,500 a year, a 50% raise. That made Irv Kupcinet Chicago's second best-paid columnist, next to Chicago Tribune's Sport Editor Arch Ward ($50,000 a year). Kup is taking on other chores too; he has two radio jobs and was dickering last week for two more...
...railroads grant him a special low export rate. During the war the nation's biggest export shipper was the Government; but its shipments never carried their foreign destination, and were often held for weeks at inland storage points to prevent port jams. Says the Government: it usually paid the full freight rate. For such "overcharges," Attorney General Tom Clark last week asked the Interstate Commerce Commission to make U.S. railroads refund "between $1 and $3 billion...
...seven highest-paid physicians in the U.S. last year were specialists, the magazine Medical Economics reported this week. The seven had gross incomes up to $180,000, net incomes (after paying for offices, etc.) up to $96,000. From 1943 to 1947, net incomes of all physicians rose 14% (net income of all gainfully employed persons rose 32%). As a profession, medicine looked well paid: physicians were in the top 3% income bracket; 2.8% of them grossed $50,000 or more. Average income of all doctors was $18,500 gross...
...Imports rose $66,300,000 to $615,600,000. Much of the import increase was due to a phenomenal step-up in British exports to the U.S. For the first six months of 1948 they ran 50% higher than in 1947, and paid for one-third of Britain's U.S. needs...