Word: underpaid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...N.A.M.'s new president was born in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1897, emigrated to the U.S. in 1910. Completing grammar school in Holyoke, Mass., Bannow went to work as an apprentice patternmaker in 1911 at 6½? an hour ("I was grossly underpaid"). In 1919 he shipped around the world for a year as a coal stoker on a freighter ("I had to get that phase out of my system"). At 30, he bought Bridgeport Pattern and Model Works with "$80 and a $3,000 loan,'1 changed its name to Bridgeport Machines, Inc., and went to work manufacturing...
...bottom. First results: the arrest of scores of crooked officers, from generals to lieutenants. Many were found to be taking bribes from contract-hungry businessmen -and in several cases even succeeded in buying off some of Tiger's investigators, who in turn were also court-martialed. Other underpaid officers (a four-star general gets only $174 a month) had coolly pocketed payrolls for their own troops. Stolen military supplies had become so important to the South Korean economy that in June, when investigators stripped 1,829 army tires from civilian vehicles, Transport Minister Kim II Hwan...
Most people think of the man with two jobs as a relatively underpaid worker who is forced to moonlight to pay the household bills. The cop and the fireman, who get as little as $2,400 annually, wash windows and work as handymen for a few extra dollars a week: the $3,000-a-year schoolteacher drives an ice-cream truck to send his son to college. But the biggest moonlighter of them all is the airline pilot, that rugged capitalist of the sky, who makes as much as $30,000 a year (as a jet captain) and spends...
...duller than an honest quiz show, an honest wrestling match, or a play that captures dialogue exactly as uttered by real live people. It seems to me that the only group that has a legitimate gripe against-the quiz programs is Actors' Equity, not because the actors were underpaid but ' because they didn't join the union...
...administration. Unless they can have more of a say in Blue Cross, labor leaders claim they will start their own health plans and hospitals. (It might be added that hospital officials thought the "tolerating excessive costs" charge ironic in view of the attempt of unions to organize underpaid non-professional hospital workers last spring.) Furthermore, national health insurance, while not a political football at present, could easily become so with enough encouragement from labor leaders...