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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...payer doesn't help, private educational institutions will go down. We receive heart-rending pleas for money from conscientious people who want to help war-torn people and home-less children whose homes we have helped to destroy, and in the same mail requests for gifts to the Harvard Fund to keep the University going. Then Harvard bows, pushes a $10,000 chair under our bottom and says, "Pray, make yourself comfortable...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sever Seats Alarm | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...simple 10?-an-hour plan proposed by President Truman's fact-finders and rejected by industry, the new formula required four typewritten pages of "simplified" explanation by the union. The steelworkers would pay some of their wages-2¼? an hour-into the insurance half of the fund, with Bethlehem chipping in another 2½? an hour for each worker. But the company would have to pay by itself the cost of a liberal pension plan, guaranteeing all 65-year-old steelworkers with 25 years of service minimum retirement pensions of $100 a month. Some would get more. This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LABOR: Magic Formula | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Right Speed, Right Time. Gustave Marquot considers himself un capitaliste éclairé (an enlightened capitalist). He has set up a profit-sharing plan, health insurance, a pension fund. To combat absenteeism, Marquot has instituted an "assiduity bonus"-each worker gets 150 francs for each two-week period in which he has not been absent from work. There is no union at Marquot's. About 100 of his 400 workers once belonged to the Communist-dominated C.G.T., but the union fell apart six months ago when the secretary found himself unable to collect dues. Workers' gripes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Capitalist Revolution | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

...great of $12,083 was left to the College "to establish a scholarship fund to be known as the Helen H. White scholarship, the income of which is to be used in aid" of needy girls...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Gets Grant Of Over $12,000 For Scholarships | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

...present rate of return on investments, the scholarship fund, President Jordan explained, will yield a yearly income...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annex Gets Grant Of Over $12,000 For Scholarships | 11/10/1949 | See Source »

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