Word: reached
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shovel coal out now, the Council would liberalize benefits all along the line. Instead of waiting until 1942 to begin monthly benefit payments and making lump sum payments to workers who reach 65 before then, it suggested moving the monthly benefits back to 1940, making them bigger, adding annuities for wives over 65, benefits for widows and orphans. This would reduce the burden on Social Security's independent old-age-assistance program,* designed primarily for uninsured oldsters...
Little did it matter to these refugees that it had taken two months of hardship to reach where they were last week, somewhere between Ichang and Chungking, that it probably would take them another month to scramble through the Yangtze gorges to their goal. They were on their way to China's "promised land" in the interior provinces, far from their enemies...
...grizzled old colliers and young shavers, eager to put pick to coal again, tramped to the mine mouth. There they stepped aboard the "cage," a rickety elevator which dropped them 700 feet to the mine-deep, starting point of the sloping shaft which runs out under the sea. To reach their diggings the miners boarded a "rake," a string of small narrow, flat cars fitted with wooden benches, which are let down the ten-degree slope by a wrist-thick steel cable...
...first 200 miners to reach the mine-deep were lowered to the end of the shaft and the cars were reeled back to the starting point. Some 250 more miners scrambled on the 26 little cars and started down the slope. Suddenly there came a cannon-like crack-the cable had snapped off about 1,000 feet behind the last car. "She's running away!" shouted one collier...
Such a program, according to Mr. Hazelett, would not result in overproduction, provided prices and wages were not fixed but were allowed to reach the highest possible levels "consistent with maximum production." He believes that putting all the nation's productive facilities to work would automatically create enough demand to consume the increased output. In short, he agrees with the famed Brookings Institution concept that real prosperity is a result of increasing production and lowering prices, and he suggests taxation as a method of putting the theory into effect...