Word: payments
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...before 1929, started a "guaranteed annual wage" plan 25 years before Ford and General Motors did. He worked out a retirement plan for Kodak in 1928, an unemployment benefit plan in 1930, which included 13 other Rochester companies, became famous as the Rochester Unemployment Benefit Plan. It called for payment of 60% of salary to unemployed workers for thirteen weeks. In 1942 he helped organize the Committee for Economic Development, an influential organization of businessmen and educators devoted to maintaining a healthy economy...
...Blue Cross (hospital) plans provide no funds for diagnosis until the subscriber has been admitted to a hospital, which means that a doctor must have certified him as already ill; Blue Shield (doctors' bills) plans vary widely, but many make partial or no payment for X rays, blood chemistry tests, pregnancy tests. Attempts to get around these provisions have resulted in abuse of the plans and forced their rates...
...soundest companies, with 160 producing wells and drilling rights on some 2,400,000 acres of oil land. The deal was fabulously profitable for Lawyer Harvie. More than 20 years ago, a bankrupt client gave him the then-worthless rights to the best part of the land in payment of a legal fee. Harvie cannily held them until they yielded a fortune...
...Ford and General Motors contract call for, just aren't possible for new and small businesses. And don't think these guarantees won't grow. We in the coal industry remember only too well what happened to us . . . In 1946 a contract [was] signed for the payment of 5? a ton royalty into a welfare fund. Today, the welfare...
...Part Payment. The triumphal tour was the kind of stuff that winsome movies are made of. The girls themselves range in age from 15 to 28, have been rehearsing for their tour for the last two summers. Conductor Sirpo, 60, is a harddriving; expatriate Finn who wants the old countries to understand the deep-down values he has found in the U.S. "I felt the need to repay America for giving me so much," he explains, "and for a music teacher, music is the only way to repay something. I wanted to show Europeans what young Americans...