Word: paychecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bullock reckons that the median income of the Negro household in Houston has risen from $2,900 in 1940 to $4,016 today. One reason for the relatively high income is that Negro families frequently have more than one wage earner; one family in three has a second paycheck...
...Lean Years. In Fort Worth, Café Worker H. A. Bristow, 72, got a divorce and a $1,000 community-property settlement after he told the judge that his 79-year-old wife took his paycheck every week, gave him only $1.50 for bus tokens, retrieved the tokens and doled them out to him two a day, forced him to buy coffee from coins he found while sweeping the café, whacked him on the shins with a broom when he tried to see his children by a previous marriage...
...always is the embezzler an underling trying to pad out a slim paycheck. When the president of Chicago's MidAmerican Steel Warehouse saw his profits slumping deeper and deeper, he decided to make one final effort to save his business. To bring in new working capital he took more than $100,000 and went on a gambling expedition to Las Vegas. MidAmerican went bankrupt anyway...
...potent basic weapon: his reconciliation contract. The lengthy form document (36 pages) begins with an agreement to forgive past injuries, and covers a long list of subjects, including the right to privacy ("In such matters as personal mail"), in-laws, sex, late hours, gambling, grudges, bringing home the paycheck ("The parties agree to preserve and exhibit to one another all pay stubs representing any earnings earned by them"), charge accounts and the silent or doghouse treatment. Each unhappy husband and wife are invited to sign the contract, agreeing to all the pertinent parts. The key clause: parties who sign place...
Night and day-for the Tropic closes only on Panama's election days-customers came and went: freighter captains, Navy C.P.O.s, Panama Presidents and judges, pugs, policemen and passing yachtsmen. A young U.S. Army officer named Dwight Eisenhower once cashed his paycheck there; Argentina's exiled ex-President Juan Perón has dropped in lately. In the early '30s Aimee Semple McPherson, the thrice-divorced Foursquare Gospelbinder, visited Belgray's incognito...