Word: bonuses
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Laid low by layoffs in its coal pits and factories. Kentucky has approved the farthest-reaching of all state veterans' bonus bills and one of the first anywhere since the palmy post-Korea days. Beginning in April, the state will pay bonuses averaging $342 apiece and ranging up to $500 to every veteran of any of the last four wars (Spanish-American through Korea) who lived in Kentucky at the time he entered the service. Also eligible: veterans' widows, widowers, parents and orphaned children now under 18. Kentucky estimates that some 450,000 people will collect a bonus...
...federal expenditure over the next five years. As the President sees it, the Federal Government should make annual grants of some $900 million to the states to build new public schools and supplement teacher salaries (based on a figure of $30 a year per pupil, with a bonus for low-income states and complex big-city plants), provide an additional $100 million for teacher-training...
...hour day. The company has built or provided mortgages for about 3,500 homes sold to employees at cost. During the Depression, the company saw to it that at least one member of every family worked two days a week, during World War II sent servicemen-employees their annual bonus and vacation pay. Not surprisingly, the firm's labor force has consistently rejected unionization. The Triple Cities have also benefited from a number of parks and playgrounds donated by the company, as well as an 18-hole golf course with greens fees of only 50?. Although the company...
There could be found no poignant example of contemporary youth's prematurely cynical attitude toward the fallings of its elders than the organization recently founded at Princeton. Calling itself the Veterans of Future Wars, the group advances as the chief plank of its platform the immediate payment of a bonus to all males who will be killed in the next war. A similar movement at Vassar, The Gold Star Mothers of the Veterans of Future Wars, declares that it intends to send delegates to view the future burying ground of the future dead...
...generation toward the evils that have been troubling mankind since the world began. It would have been a remarkable thing, nineteen years ago, to find college students making statements like this: "Since the coming of the future war will deprive the most deserving bloc of its veterans of their bonus, by their sudden and complete demise, the Bonus must be paid now." The Princetonians who conceived this clever bit of humor are not to be censored. Youth must play; and deadly fatalism is quite as diverting as belligerent and shallow pacifism. --Harvard CRIMSON, March...