Word: pensions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Into the Maneuvers. Estes, who had waved his way through many an empty street in Florida, kept on spinning in California. He wound up the primary season with a spiel of half-baked charges against Stevenson's position on the race issue, his record on old-age pension legislation and his activities as a lawyer for Radio Corp. of America. Retorted Stevenson: "He has apparently decided that if he cannot win, he will destroy...
Though the U.M.W. welfare and pension fund was set up ten years ago and has cost the industry close to $1 billion, a series of strikes and squabbles delayed its effective operation until 1950. Since 1946, the mine operators have upped their contribution from 5? to 40? a ton. They have also accepted responsibility for the monumental task of bringing modern medicine to the industry with the second-highest accident rate (after logging) in the U.S. Unlike many unions, the U.M.W. has run the program so efficiently that a Senate subcommittee investigating union welfare funds last April called it "honestly...
...Bursar has also served for many years as Treasurer of the New England Deposit Library and a member of the Employee's Pension Committee...
...Employer-paid insurance and pension plans, improved vacation and holiday benefits, a union shop and 15 lesser demands covering additional benefits...
...entered a 334-line poem in an open contest of the French Academy, took ninth place. At 16 he won the Academy of Toulouse's first prize, the Golden Lily. At 20 he published his first book of poems, Odes et Poesies Diverses, received a royal pension, and married his childhood sweetheart, Adele Foucher. By then he was one of the most mixed characters that ever walked the earth-a tempestuous rebel, a lover of kings, a bourgeois who could account for every sou he spent, a fanatical moralist, an insatiable sensualist. He came virgin to his marriage...