£7,000 Salaries for American Constructicn Workers in Vietnam

The Week Vol. 6, No. 11, c. 29 September 1966 · p. 5 of the scan · 55 words

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The 'Daily Mail! reported last week that seven hundred US workers on airfields in Vietnam have been promised up to £350 in bonuses if they behave themselves and abstain from drunkenness, marijuana and pornography. The bonus is additional to a salary of £7,000, which it would take the average Vietnamese worker 210 years to earn,