Word: dying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young to Die." The auto workers, like the steelworkers, were concentrating on pensions and welfare benefits. The demands on Ford would total 40? to 44? an hour, including a cost-of-living increase (about 10?), and, more important, 8% for health insurance, 24? for pensions...
Cried Reuther: "C. E. Wilson [president of General Motors] in 1948 got $516,300 in salary and bonus. He made $258 an hour. General Motors will give him $25,000 a year when he is too old to work but too young to die ... If you make $1.65 an hour they say you don't need it... We say to American industry, if you can afford to pay pensions to people who don't need them, then by the eternal gods you are going to pay them to people who do need them-the guys in the shop...
...that she might have milk, Papouas got Marianthi a goat, and also acquired the services of an orderly to milk and tend the animal. Marianthi knew that many simmoritissai who were sick, wounded, or burdened by babies had been left to die or be taken by the enemy; but she thought that such things could never happen...
...father wants her to pay attention to Thomas Bouché, who has him on a financial hook. Jennie refuses. Bouché pulls a knife on Brack. Brack kills him, is sentenced to death, escapes from jail to spend his last hours with Jennie, then goes dutifully back to die...
...recollect that any civilization ever perished from an attack of doubt," Ortega said. "I recollect that civilizations usually die through the ossification of their traditional faith, through an arteriosclerosis of their beliefs...