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Only a small slice of the world was listening the day a big-boned girl named Clara Anne Fowler stepped up to sing on Tulsa's KTUL. The program was a hillbilly affair sponsored by the Page Milk Co. Its sales-conscious title: "Meet Patti Page...
...close to the body, not an inch at a time. Otherwise, you always have a sore tail-and a mad cat." Mike DiSalle's bosses in the mobilization high command agreed. All that remained was to determine just how close to the body to slice, and when...
...more money for two years. Abdullah Suleiman had imported a U.S. tax expert, John Greaney, to help him get it. In November Ibn Saud, who passes his own laws, suddenly promulgated an income-tax decree which would take half of Aramco's profits now and possibly a bigger slice later...
Abrupt Hike. For many years, Iran's royalties from Anglo-Iranian made up at least one-sixth to one-fifth of the government's annual revenues. But as the company's prosperity grew, so did Iran's insistence that it get a larger slice of the profits. Late in 1932, the Iranian government tore up the original agreement and forced Anglo-Iranian to hike royalties and hitch them to the size of the stockholders' dividends. In return, it extended the concession...
...better job, labor got a bigger slice of the economic pie; the average U.S. manufacturing wage in 1950 rose 14%, from $56 a week to an alltime high of $64. Corporate profits also scaled a new peak. The estimated grand total after taxes: $23 billion, up about 27% over 1949. As their share, stockholders split their biggest melons in history. But dividends of $8.5 billion were still a much smaller percentage of profits than in pre-World War II years, largely because corporations were pouring so many billions into expansion...