Word: paychecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gone all day and three or four nights a week; leaving the whole responsibility of raising the family on the mother. When the man is home nobody dares to open a mouth because he is tired and grouchy. If these men would get used to living on one paycheck and spend more time with their families everyone would be better off." Abby agreed...
Cold Comfort. In El Paso, a jury awarded $450 in damages to a baby sitter after her former employer made out her paycheck to "Mary Garcia - lousy maid...
...pile of bricks in the suburbs?" he demanded. "If you do, you should get a load on every night. Isn't that a hell of a goal?" Television and the movies have their uses. Faulkner conceded, since they are "a simple way to get a paycheck and have nothing to do with writing." For a young writer, Faulkner kept saying, the only thing that matters is a craving to write: "The writer's got to be demon-ridden, to have the demon drive, to express the breadth, beauty, injustice and compassion of life...
...Ernest Borgnine and Dan Dailey) were Broadway characters as salty as the waiters in Lindy's, and for most of the distance they give the customer a pretty fair run for his money. MacRae lays his wad on fast women, Borgnine on slow horses, and Dailey gives his paycheck to the ever-loving wife. But they all get together to write pretty little ditties (Sonny Boy, Black Bottom, Button Up Your Overcoat, Birth of the Blues), and Sheree North is usually around to sing them. The show glides along, smooth as a Detroit Air Cooled ("buoyant readability")-a dependable...
...Texas went up 58%, the number of city Negroes quadrupled in the state. They are also getting better jobs. In 1940, only 2.9% of Houston's Negroes were in the professions; today the figure is 5.2%, of which almost half are teachers. Another factor in the fatter paycheck has been the lessening of barriers to better jobs. Bullock checked 736 Texas manufacturing firms, found eight of them now employ Negro chemists, nine have Negro engineers...