Word: paychecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give each worker a scooter, so he will have his own transportation, have something valuable of his own, and have a stake in the principle of private property." Taking their cue from this, many industrialists have bought Vespas on a reduced-price fleet plan, sold them to employees by paycheck deductions. In Piaggio's own plant, 60% of the 3,500 workers who once depended on bicycles or their feet for their transportation now own scooters...
...your story of Pilot Goodwin [TIME, April 28]: many Air Force officers retained their reserve commissions in order to defend the U.S. in case of war. They have been in the inactive reserves, have received no monthly paycheck, have received no credit towards a "generous Government retirement" plan, and have been called back into service on an involuntary basis. The Air Force offers no security to these officers except a return to an often difficult readjustment in civilian life with always the shadow of a possible recall . . . hanging over their heads...
...wish you would arrange for the Air Force to forward my monthly paycheck to me for the past five years that I have been a member of the Air Force Reserve...
...reserve officer 'who signed for a five-year commission in September 1945 (after four years' active duty), I would like to state that I have never received a paycheck for what time I gave to the Air Force, and certainly did not ask to have the commission extended beyond the five-year period. I cannot see why anyone in my position, as many reserves must be, should feel we owe any duty to our country when all around us are men who have never been required to give one day's service to their country. HENRY...
...Force saw the whole affair in a somewhat different light. The reluctant flyers all knew that they were subject to combat duty when they chose to retain their reserve commissions-and thus draw a monthly paycheck from the Air Force, plus earning a generous Government retirement pension. Some of them came back into service voluntarily. And most of the sit-downers seemed to get that way just as they were about to be sent to Korea...