Ted Newsom wrote:
OK then... he was a closet Upton Sinclair supporter. And Upton Sinclair would've been a good choice to write IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE if'd he'd been alive in 1953 and would work for 300 bucks a week. How's that for getting things back on track?
That's on the nosey--Heinlein was a strong supporter of Sinclair in the 1930s.  Three hundred bucks a week wasn't bad pay in the early 1950s.