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Show 11,915 Persons I la3 Over Million Dollars, Report WASHINGTON According to government sources and compilers I of mailing lists, there are 11,915 millionaires in the United States, I and American business in 1949 paid at least 51 executives $200,000 or more a year. Many argue that it is getting more difficult all the time to make a fortune, but the fact remains I that each year since the end ot I World War II at least 75 more . Americans amassed that universal ly coveted first million. I There are, according to avail- able figures, 303 more millionaires ! today than there were in 1948. ! Which means that one American out of every 12,500 or so has a cool ' million. According to one of the largest ! list compiling agencies, there are ' i now 22,307 persons in this country . worth between $500,000 and a mil- 1 lion; 52,113 have between $250,000 and half a million; 130,439 have between $100,000 and a quarter of a million, and, all told, some 589,- i 141 Americans could rustle up $50,-000 $50,-000 or more. I American business paid 160 executives exec-utives between $100,000 and $200,-000 $200,-000 last year in addition to those who received $200,000 or more. The highest was $586,000 in salary, bonus bo-nus and stock paid to the president of General Motors. The president of GM was taxed $430,350 of his $586,000 by the federal fed-eral government. But getting back to the wealthy persons in the United States, according ac-cording to reports there are 2,566 millionaires in New York. Pennsylvania Pennsyl-vania is second with 1,129. Ohio boasts 802 and Massachusetts' 775. Illinois comes fifth with 715, ahead of the 610 officially residing in California. Cali-fornia. .- - :. |
