Word: aging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused with old age insurance (toward which U. S. employers and employes pay a premium with every salary check), old age assistance payments are outright gifts to needy U. S. citizens 65 or over. Although each State administers its program independently, the Federal Government matches the State's contribution and adds 5%, for administrative expenses. Some $10,000.000 of Federal money has poured into Oklahoma since the State got its program going in July 1936. When Oklahoma's indigent old reached the impressive total of 68,000 the Social Security Board began to investigate. A random check...
...bandwagon with a vengeance. One pensioner, a physician, had just bought a new Ford for cash. A pensioned blacksmith owned his own shop, a car, two lots, owed no debts or back taxes. Of 47 ineligibles on the rolls in one county, 20 were not 65 years of age. Among the discovered beneficiaries were 157 corpses, twelve inmates of insane asylums. Over 1.400 case files were missing. Other interesting pensioners: an aged Negro who lived on a county line, had changed his name to draw pensions in both counties; the mother of a $14,000-a-year major league baseballer...
...typical teacher, 38, with one or more dependents, is physically healthier than most other U. S. citizens. He or she is absent from school for illness only three days a year, is likely to live to a ripe old age...
...citizens who want to learn to fly have a wide choice of courses to pick from, all dependent on the applicant's age, fitness, depth of purse. If he wants his training for nothing, the Air Corps will take any healthy, well-schooled male between the ages of 20 and 26, feed, clothe, shelter and train him for a year, pay him $75 a month, almost guarantee a defense force or airline flyer's job at the end of the course. Last week two other ways were introduced. Tennessee began sending out application blanks for five State schools...
Typical of the 21 air academies approved by the Bureau of Air Commerce is San Diego's Ryan School of Aeronautics, which last week surveyed its 15 years' activity. Ryan's students come mostly from farms and small towns. Though the average age of enrollment is 21, each fresh batch includes a few middle-aged executives, bankers, retired Army & Navy officers. Seventeen instructors teach ten full courses each year, turn out master navigators for $100; radio engineers, $250; master mechanics, $495; private and limited commercial pilots, $545 to $795; commercial pilots, $2,285; master pilots...