Word: long
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Shot...
WHERE EXACTLY IS THAT DESERTED LONG ISLAND BEACH...
...depressing aspect of the dispute was that it could have been settled overnight with no apparent injury to either side. It would cost Ben Fairless nothing more to waive his condition of worker contributions. Fairless pointed out that it would cost most of the workers nothing more in the long run to kick in a few cents; many of them were already contributing to pension and insurance funds. Pension money would belong to them as surely as if they had put it in a savings bank...
...Senate finally began doing something about the Government's long-under paid hired hands. Convinced at last that the U.S. could not get first-class service for second-class salaries, it voted some $476 million a year in pay boosts for the 1,600,000 members of the armed forces and 1,400,000 Government employees. With only perfunctory appeals to economy, the Senate approved...
Urgent Appeal. Although the nation's fighting men were already the highest paid in the world, military pay, particularly for officers, had long lagged behind the civilian level. The result was the first general brass-to-rookie pay boost in 40 years. Some samples: a corporal, who got $42 a month before World War II and now draws $105, will get $132; a master sergeant drawing $157 before the war and $283 now, will get $363 ; majors will move up from $484 to $560; brigadier generals from...