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...reading your story on the presidential campaign [Sept. 18], I noted your quoting Senator McGovern as saying that the president of Dow received a pay raise of 196% and has to "eke out an existence on $305,000 a year...
...business community has held up on new ventures that might be destroyed in the war; as a result, capital investment has practically dried up. South Viet Nam's job market has rarely been bleaker. Thousands of workers who held steady jobs a year ago are now forced to eke out a living as street vendors...
Welfare should be viewed as a racial issue because people commonly believe that most welfare clients are black freeloaders. It is not uncommon while campaigning in white working-class neighborhoods to hear people complaining about how hard they work to eke out an existence and about how people on welfare (blacks) get to live in hotels...
...application of wage and price controls, working a traditional Democratic campaign theme of the little man fighting the party of big business. While worker salaries are in "a deep freeze," he claimed in Dallas, the president of Dow Chemical Co. received a pay raise of 196% and has to "eke out an existence on $305,000 a year." He inveighed against tax loopholes for the rich. "You pay for every martini lunch that a businessman deducts-while you eat a bologna sandwich." (Later, travelers on his campaign plane ceremoniously presented McGovern with a martini-which he declined-and a single...
Consequently, with nothing to lose and time running out, Tatrallyay rushed Varraljay and scored the final touch to eke...