When the U.S. Treasury last week issued its regular report on corporate salaries above $75,000 a year, reporters accustomed to writing the yearly story about the lush pay of Hollywood stars blinked and looked again. No. 1 on the list was no surprise: as usual, it was the Majmifico of the Movies, Loew's and M.G.M.'s cold-eyed Louis Burt Mayer. But No. 2 was a brand-new name: Carl Gustave Swebilius, head of a New Haven, Conn, engineering outfit called Dixwell Corp., and of two subsidiaries aptly named High Standard Manufacturing Co. and High Standard Manufacturing Corp.
In M.G.M.'s fiscal year ending...
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