Word: underpay
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there can be no question of the importance of the expansion issue. Its economic implications are conspicious: that Harvard may have to pay as much as $10 million just for the land to expand; that it may be forced to underpay its professors (even if they do remain among the nation's highest paid.) The educational implications, as they would influence the substitution of lectures for sections and would perhaps reduce student-Faculty relations, are even more significant. It is impossible to pass on the probability or desirability of the various possibilities, but their existence is clear and important...
...Students Underpay...
...industrial" agents walked out in the first major strike of U.S. insurance agents and the biggest "whitecollar" strike in U.S. labor history. The strikers, whose work included selling and collecting premiums on industrial policies (i.e., insurance paid for in small weekly or monthly installments), complained of overwork and underpay. During the strike, they threw as many as 1,000 pickets around the company's Newark (N.J.) headquarters...