Word: scale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bill rejects the automatic-dole principle, tailors pension payments to fit the needs of individual veterans in an age of higher social security and private pensions. Key new principle: a "graduated scale" that turns the pension into a supplemental payment, brings each pensioner's annual income (including social security) from all sources to the $1,400 minimum, higher if he has dependents. A single veteran with an annual income of $1,300 would get only $10 a month in pension; a married veteran with two children and only $1,200 income would get $90 a month more...
Over the postwar years a dozen nationalities have streamed into Austria, seeking asylum, filling refugee camps, and-despite large-scale international aid-burdening the Austrian economy. After the influx of nearly 200,000 Hungarians, Austria in self-defense decided to limit the flow. Reading between the lines of the Geneva Refugee Convention. Austria decided to distinguish economic refugees from political refugees. Since "economic"' refugees are those in quest of a better life -not (in the language of the Convention) fleeing persecution-Austria concluded that they could be deported...
...Minister Fidel Castro flew into Washington last week and spared neither energy nor charm in putting a good face on his revolution and trying "to understand better the United States." He even kissed a baby in a Washington park. In a town where winning friends rates high on the scale of admired talents, he won a lot of admiration...
Positions of Strength. Both sides considered themselves in strong positions. The St. Louis guild is aggressive and well heeled, over the years has brought minimum newspaper salaries to a scale second only to New York. With members drawing up to $80 a week strike pay, the guild says that only four have reported switching to new, permanent jobs, only 10% have taken part-time jobs to last out the strike. Last week the guild laid plans to put out its own morning daily...
Britain's Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition in 1915 was as foolish in conception as it was heroic in outcome. Both ends of the scale were weighted by heavy-jawed Sir Ernest ("The Boss'') Shackleton, who in 1909 had gone to within 97 miles of the South Pole. Shackleton had one trouble: he was a towering egotist. As an apprentice in the British merchant navy, he was termed "the most pigheaded, obstinate boy I have ever come across" by his first skipper. Born a middle-class Irishman, he burned to force his way to the top of Britain...