Word: pensioners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must give to all Americans, those on the farms and those in the cities, a chance to drink from the cup of plenty. I just came from visiting a home that has used the food stamp plan, that lives off an old-age pension that tries to feed a grandmother, seven children, a mother and father-a family of ten-off nine acres of tobacco and ten acres of cotton on an advance of $20 a week with a charge of 10% interest...
Where can a man go to get some real living out of a pension check-a place where it's a sunny 70° all year round, where a five-room house can be had for $40 a month and a live-in maid for $16, where the family food bill may be measured in pennies per day, with beer at 80 a bottle and gin at 98? a quart? The answer to this daydreaming question is not nowhere; it's Mexico...
...Pensions & Pesticides. Another curious Du Pont was Alfred I, who was too busy running the company (in the early 1920s) to visit his children after he divorced his wife. After 14 years he was surprised to learn that his daughter had sat across the aisle from him on a train some years before; he had not recognized her. In the days before social security, Alfred pioneered in the field of old-age pensions, spent $350,000 of his own money in pension checks for Delaware's needy. His cousin and archenemy Pierre shelled...
...Supervisors complain that they have a higher absenteeism rate than men-6.5 days a year v. five days-partly because men do not have babies. Some labor leaders are also cool to women workers; only 14% of them join unions, and those who do tend to vote down proposed pension plans. Predictably, they do not want the security of pensions, but the joy of more cash to spend immediately...
That solution may not be quite as outlandish as one French lawyer claimed: "Juridical nonsense! The French Assembly can now raise the dead." The aim of the law is simply to legitimize any children the woman may have and get her any possible pension; the ceremony gives her no new inheritance rights. But bizarre results are piling...