Word: payday
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...than worried. Hordes of Navy wives had rushed to Norfolk to be with their men until the Fleet dress-paraded up to the New York World's Fair next week. Now that their menfolk were off to undetermined ports, many must wait until the Navy's next payday for money to pay holiday debts and get home...
...include two daughters and five sons, and when young Danny O'Neill is living with the grandmother in the comparative luxury of an apartment. The new light it throws on the environment is in its picture of the poverty of the O'Neills, with their excitement on payday, when they know they will get meat for supper, and their painful struggle to keep up some outward respectability in a world where they cannot pay their bills or get credit. And although the characters fight, insult each other, get drunk, beat the children, curse the Jews and the neighbors...
Weighing 250 lb., a hard-driving man with unaccountable periods of complete inertia, Crocker was in charge of the actual construction of the Central Pacific, boasted that he found fault with everything and that everybody was afraid of him. But on payday he rode through the construction crews with 150 lb. of gold and silver, paid workmen himself. Because he admired the endurance of his Chinese cook, he favored Chinese crews over his partners' objections. When the Central Pacific was stopped by wild mountain country (during 1866 only 28 miles of track were laid), the rival Union Pacific...
Some of the teachers wondered if they would ever get their back pay. The years had passed and one-third of them had grown old and died. But last week brought a payday. That was in Catamarca, Argentina. Not the amount of arrears ($90,000) but the time-lag made news. The Government ordered 15% of all revenue earmarked for them and the teachers of Catamarca began collecting their salaries...
Under the new contract, as an "accommodation" to the Union, the operators "upon the request of any employe will receive from [him] on payday, at a point convenient to the pay office and transmit to the district [union] treasurer, an amount not in excess of $1 per month." The operators decline to "solicit or compel contributions...