Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burney's predecessor, who was involved in last year's troubles over polio-vaccine distribution, resigned (with a disability pension) to take a $60,000-a-year job. By a recent act of Congress, the new Surgeon General receives $22,626 annually-$5,826 more than Dr. Scheele...
Breaking off into an Upper House and Lower House, the Deputies (all of them nominated by the Communist Party and elected unopposed) then began to debate the Bulganin pension plan. A comrade from hot Turkmenistan argued that people in hot climates ought to retire earlier and get pensions sooner (laughter), but a comrade from the chilly Ural Mountains countered that the hardy cold-weather Russians deserved even better from the republic. Several delegates observed that they did not like Bulganin's plan for 15% lower pensions for country dwellers (on the theory that countryfolk had little gardens and presumably...
...ideas from the floor were "fine proposals," said Bulganin, and "the time will come when we will have everything." but for now most of them were "unrealistic." That ended their little essay into debating. According to Radio Moscow, "the Deputies warmly cheered Premier Bulganin," and then passed his pension law unanimously. Next day the Supreme Soviet made up for lost time, rubber-stamped 15 new laws in 35 minutes. Unanimously, of course...
...they have never really joined organized labor-four separate unions have flopped, and they have never managed a successful strike-each team has its player representative. If trivial requests have failed (one Philadelphia muscleman thought dugout benches needed foam-rubber cushions), earnest efforts to improve conditions have built the pension system and boosted minimum salaries...
...MOBILE PENSIONS enabling workers to carry accumulated pension credits from job to job are being pushed on West Coast. After short strike, Libby, McNeill & Libby has signed agreement giving 1,500 West Coast Teamsters Union members mobile pensions, will pay 10? per hour per worker into fund which union and management will administer jointly. With Libby victory, Teamsters have won mobile pensions for a total of more than 200,000 workers in eleven Western states, hope to boost total...