Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This purpose will be accomplished through (1) exploitation of patriotism, (2) instigation of foreign wars, (3) publication of stolen letters and telegrams, (4) manufacture of misleading propaganda, (5) political crusades against persons disagreeing with its aims and methods, (6) support for all pension and bonus schemes, and (7) the extermination of the red menace in colleges, prep schools, and kindergartens...
This was high praise indeed. The loom in which Joseph Marie Jacquard made practical the ideas of several 18th Century inventors was declared public property in France in 1806, and Jacquard was rewarded with royalties, a pension, a statue. In making fabrics with woven-in designs, it is required that every time a thread of weft is passed across the warp, certain needles be lifted from the row, corresponding to the cross-section of the design at that point. Jacquard solved this with a series of perforated cards permitting some needles to pass through the holes and stopping others. Jacquard...
...father as a boy of 18 enlisted for and served nine months in the middle of the Civil War. He came out entirely unharmed in any way. From the time when a pension was granted to all veterans until his death he received from the Government about $3,000. After his death my stepmother, 23 years younger than he, received her widow's pension of $30 a month, a total of almost $3,000 more. About $6,000 for nine months of service...
Meanwhile my taxes, of course, are still helping to pay the Government for my father's pension...
...Clairsville, Ohio, Alexander Hamilton Brandon, 75, was awarded an old age pension after officials had verified the facts that his grandfather was with George Washington at Valley Forge, his grandmother was an Indian, nine of his brothers fought for the Confederacy in the Civil War, eight for the Union...