Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...growth of inflation, despite tight credit and high taxes, indicates the need for a general examination of America's economic health. President Eisenhower has expressed concern about soaring prices, which have brought complaints from pension-holders and others on fixed incomes. Many economists think that inflation has reached the acute stage, beyond which lie the hardships of a depression or the inequities accompanying devalued currency. Although there are some optimistic voices, anticipation of a general pocketbook squeeze calls for inquiry...
...They had the same face and skeptical character." Then in addition she claimed to have a letter from Puvis de Chavannes' lawyer offering to make an annual settlement of 200 francs on Maurice during his lifetime. Asked Lucie pointedly: "Why do you think Chavannes offered to pay that pension...
...room and kitchen rented from the Communists-and went around to the cobbler to get his dilapidated shoes repaired. "He has holes in his shoes like us,'' some people said approvingly. At night, on his battered portable, he wrote letters for the illiterate, appeals to provincial authorities, pension applications for old soldiers. More and more people began to bring Don Domenico their problems. Some of them even began showing up for Mass...
...well as from personal conviction, the average top executive spends up to one-third of his time on community projects (TIME, Sept. 24), expects his subordinates to follow his example. While businessmen had to be forced under protest to adopt measures such as the guaranteed annual wage and pension funds, they have voluntarily introduced profit-sharing and stock-purchase plans, launched vast human-relations programs that give the employee all manner of benefits from psychiatry to symphonies...
...little besides sashay around in cowboy boots and talk about his (very valid) friendship with Ike. But voters remembered that Texasborn Dan Thornton spends much of his time away from Colorado and that, as governor, he had tried to revise the bookkeeping on Colorado's old-age-pension system. They sent Democrat John Carroll, plain-spoken and obviously homegrown, to the Senate...