Word: pensioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...board estimated that these assessments would cost the steel industry an average of 2½% of its total operating costs, and that the industry could afford that. For workers, the pension plan (supplemented by federal social security) would provide an income of around $100 a month after...
...state's troubles were largely due to initiative 172, a pension measure put over last autumn by the Communist-dominated Washington Pension Union and its president, a crafty, smooth-talking party-liner named William J. Pennock, 33. Under its terms the old folks not only get money for mortgage payments, rent, tax assessments, insurance, food & clothing, but free medical & dental care, free hospitalization, free home-nursing service and free medicines, glasses and artificial limbs...
...state paid $258 for the removal of 43 embarrassing warts from one elderly woman's face) that last week the state medical board was introducing a rigid screening of patients in an attempt to reduce the state's gargantuan hospital and drug bill. Meanwhile, the Washington Pension Union, an organization with limitless gall, was calling for even higher pensions for the future...
Despite the alarm of the ordinary taxpayer, there was no guarantee that pension payments might not go right on-and up -in all three states. The old folks were a powerful people in the West...
Philip Murray waited for silence. The C.I.O. Steelworkers' president was concluding his final plea for a 30? -an-hour package of wage increases, pensions and social insurance. Across the oak-paneled hearing room sat Enders Voorhees, chairman of U.S. Steel Corp.'s finance committee, who had presented the core of Big Steel's arguments. Voorhees, snapped Murray, did not understand the working man: "He's lived a ... juicy life . . . [this] fat, sassy and very opulent man." And if Voorhees did not believe in pensions, asked Murray, "why does he not mention his own $70,323 pension...