Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.M.W. fund, reported Miss Roche, paid out $5,500,000 since mid-1948 to nearly 32,000 survivors of miners who died or were killed (an average of $174 per beneficiary). Another $64 million went into disability and assistance grants, $30 million for the miners' $100-a-month pension program, and $5,000,000 for health and medical services...
Robert F. Wagner, ex-Senator from New York who resigned last June because of ill health, applied for the pension coming to him for 43 years of public service (state legislator, judge and Senator...
...Probable pension: $10,000 a year...
White House Help. Five days before, Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching had stalked out of a negotiating session, throwing up his hands in despair. Actually the mediation meeting had lasted only 2½ hours. Phil Murray, out for big game, refused to budge from his insistence on discussing pension demands (although, under the contract, he was only entitled to open wage and insurance negotiations this year). Profit-fat steelmen* as stubbornly dragged their feet on wages as long as the union wanted to talk pensions, too. At that deadlocked point, Murray looked hopefully to the White House...
...York bus riders. Ignoring a no-strike pledge he made only two weeks ago, and blandly passing over the original excuse for the strike, Quill threatened to keep the boys out until he got them an extra 21? an hour, a 40-hour week and a whole string of pension and welfare concessions...