Word: straightened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pension plans or started new ones, adding millions to the cost of doing business in 1949. The changes did not settle the problem; they did sketch its enormous size. At year's end there were still about 11.5 million unionists without pensions, and union labor hoped to straighten this out in 1950. Part of the cost of pensions was a burden that industry could, and should, bear-if labor's demands were reasonable. But many businessmen also argued for a liberalization of the Federal Government's social-security payments, lest the burden on private enterprise grow...