Word: payless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that point, Soapy Williams tore off the kind of statement that has become the bane of 1) his friends, 2) his own presidential hopes, and 3) his state. The Republicans, he stormed, had voted for "payless paydays . . . cutting off welfare funds . . . the destruction of our universities." Old Guard Republicans, who engineered the senate defeat, were indeed rather pleased at the prospect of once popular Democrat Williams standing before the nation as a flat-broke Governor. But responsible figures in business, labor and press were getting increasingly concerned that, in all the wild swinging, Michigan was getting a black eye that...
Last fall Pennsylvania became one of the first states to install a computer to issue state payroll checks automatically. The computer, put into operation too quickly, issued checks that were wildly off, left employees payless just before Christmas. The department turned the payroll job back to clerks, called in automation experts to see what had gone wrong...
...Paper. The dailies had laid off all but a handful of their 3,400 nonstriking employees on a payless "furlough." As a result, one sportwriter went to work in an iron foundry and scores of others took temporary jobs to tide them over...