Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...PENSION PLAN for some 7,500,000 self-employed, e.g., doctors, lawyers, farmers, was approved in a House bill permitting deductions up to 10% of earnings ($2,500 ceiling per year) for specified retirement plans...
Publisher Newhouse said flatly that the Guild's insistence on a guaranteed pension plan forced the deal on the creaking Globe. "We had no choice," he said. "They had a gun at our heads...
Qualifications. In Barrie, Ont., while checking an illegally parked taxi, police discovered that Driver Ross Grant had no operator's license, no municipal taxi license, and received a pension from the Canadian National Institute for the Blind...
Nothing to Chance. A. T. & T.'s efficiency goes far beyond machines. Almost every employee agrees that the company is a good place to work; it offers interesting work, stock purchase and pension plans, security and job advancement. But few deny that it is the nearest thing to regimentation in a private company. Says one employee: "When you join the telephone company, your whole life changes." A. T. & T. drills "duty" and "service" into its employees; it inundates them with dozens of handbooks of instruction. They tell employees what to do to meet almost every conceivable problem, from flying...
...field of pure poetry, but Poe carried heavy weapons in journalism, which, to him, was a corpse-littered no man's land between art and business. By peddling and shamelessly pushing his articles and stories, by the needlework of his aunt and his grandmother's minuscule pension ($240 a year derived from Grandfather Poe's services during the Revolution), Edgar kept alive in the "literary snake pit" of 19th century U.S. letters...