Word: bille
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After working on this politically fused problem for five years, the Eisenhower Administration last week sent Congress a well-turned bill to trim the abuses, keep pension totals from orbiting clear into outer space...
...bill rejects the automatic-dole principle, tailors pension payments to fit the needs of individual veterans in an age of higher social security and private pensions. Key new principle: a "graduated scale" that turns the pension into a supplemental payment, brings each pensioner's annual income (including social security) from all sources to the $1,400 minimum, higher if he has dependents. A single veteran with an annual income of $1,300 would get only $10 a month in pension; a married veteran with two children and only $1,200 income would get $90 a month more...
...sweetener to veteran-conscious Congress,* the bill would boost some 55% of the present, inflation-shrunken pension checks at a cost of an added $100 million the first year. But it offers the first promising check on the automatic boosters built into pension laws...
...Aided by a 12-m.p.h. wind that made his effort unofficial, Abilene Christian's Bill Woodhouse, 21, did the 100-yd. dash in 9.1 sec., became the third man to reach such a clocking. The others: ex-Southern California Star Mel Patton, and Bobby Morrow, a former Woodhouse teammate at Abilene Christian...
...year-old Bill Waterhouse, a senior at Denver's East High School, the College Board examinations were a breeze. Last week school officials looked at Bill's scores for scholastic achievement tests taken in March, read the results with astonishment: perfect 800s in English, chemistry and advanced mathematics...