Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just as real and grim as the shutdown was the dispute. John Lewis insisted that every miner over 60 with 20 years of service should be paid a pension of $100 a month. The operators' Ezra Van Horn insisted that to finance such a plan the present 10?-a-ton royalty on mined coal would have to be raised to 40?. The operators were not going to cough...
...more trouble ahead for General Meyers. He had been indicted on charges of lying to the Senate committee, of evading personal income taxes, and of falsifying the returns of Aviation Electric. And the Air Force, which had stripped him of his decorations and cut off his $550-a-month pension, was still waiting for a chance to court-martial...
...speaking to the general, to tell him Billy was a great guy. Billy explained that he decided to get in touch with his brother only because he would soon be 65, and it would look bad "if Pat Hurley's brother turned up on the old age pension." Why hadn't he written before? Said Billy: "My brother is a famous man, and I am nothing...
...criticized the compensation and pension policy after World...
...necks. At present, 17,000 of Britain's 21,000 general practitioners serve under a "panel" system started by Lloyd George in 1911. The system covers 19,500,000 low-income workers who pay 40? a week (their employers an equal amount) for medical care, sickness insurance and pension fund. The doctors, who get about $3 a year for each patient on their panel, may also engage in private practice. The doctors get their steady, bread-&-butter incomes (40% on the average) from the panel; the jam comes from private patients...