Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before the Senate Banking and Currency committee last week, a trim, grey-haired woman slowly read this West Virginia coal miner's account of his fight with life...
Because of his hazardous work, a miner cannot afford the cost of sky-high life insurance. The U.M.W. fund, reported Miss Roche, paid out $5,500,000 since mid-1948 to nearly 32,000 survivors of miners who died or were killed (an average of $174 per beneficiary). Another $64 million went into disability and assistance grants, $30 million for the miners' $100-a-month pension program, and $5,000,000 for health and medical services...
Budapest's Szabad Nep (Free People) buckled down to the job of educating its readers on what it calls the "Private Life of a Communist...
Said Szabad Nep: "A Communist is a Communist not only in the party but in his home life. He must ... be a model husband, wife, father or mother who cares for his children and educates them to become faithful members of the working class." One particularly important duty of the model father or mother: rejection of the "bourgeois slogan" of free love...
...Olechny lost two fingers of his right hand fighting the Bolsheviks in Poland after World War I. When the Polish government rewarded him with a 75-acre farm, he thought he was settled for life; the farthest he and wife Josepha ever got from their farm was nearby Pinsk. But during World War II the Olechnys, like millions of others who had thought they were settled for life, started wandering. They covered more ground than most...