Word: pensionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disability bill [TIME, Aug. 27]: "A barefaced grab of public money" is right! Why not put all veterans on pension as soon as they're discharged and spoon-feed them for the rest of their lives...
...garden"). The commissioner got on the trail, arrested Madame Célestine Camille Martin, a 57-year-old pianist and World War I widow. Unable to make a living as a pianist, she had tried as best she could to eke out her meager 7,000 franc ($20) monthly pension. Last week a Paris court sentenced her to eight months in prison. The prospect of jail did not alarm the pink raven. Said she: "At last...
...Navy Retreats. The Utah, sunk in her old age by Japanese bombers, lay rusting on the floor of Pearl Harbor when, in 1947, the Navy decided that Mrs. Crawshaw was entitled to a partial pension. She was not satisfied with a halfway victory, and continued to fight. In 1948, she forced the Navy to list Crawshaw's death as an accident...
Last week, 30 years after she began her long battle, Mrs. Crawshaw won a full victory. Congress passed a bill making her pension retroactive to 1921. She will receive, tax exempt, more than $10,000, possibly $20,000. Now a grey-haired 64, Mrs. Crawshaw said: "It's wonderful to know that my husband has been vindicated beyond the slightest shadow of doubt...
...defense-vital copper to a trickle. Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson said the strike would "drastically curtail" production of tanks, guns and planes. Present wages of the union's men range from $1.31 to $1.62 an hour. Union demand: a general wage increase of 20? an hour, plus pension and other benefits that would add another 10? an hour. Last offer of the Kennecott Copper Corp. (see BUSINESS), on which the dispute centered, was an 11½?-an-hour increase in wages plus a pension plan to cost another...