Word: paychecks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...What is more, no one can put a price tag on the bitterness that was engendered among union members during the early years of the struggle. Kohler managed to keep open for all but the first two months of the strike by hiring nonunion labor. The lure of the paycheck persuaded many men to quit the U.A.W. and go back to work. In dozens of U.A.W. homes in Sheboygan, one man returned to Kohler-and found himself the enemy of his father and brother...
...system has evolved under State Prison Director George W. Randall into the most liberal outside work plan in the nation. All inmates with sentences of five years or less are eligible for consideration, provided they are not sex offenders, confirmed alcoholics or drug addicts. Each prisoner's weekly paycheck is turned over to the state, which gives him $5 for personal expenses, keeps $1 for state-furnished transportation-and $2.25 a day for room and board. The remainder is divided up between the prisoner's family and a trust fund that he receives on completing his sentence. Some...
...third criterion will serve to provide a true comparison between wage levels in Japan and other areas of the world. Figures are often seen which give average wages in different countries in terms of U.S. dollars. According to these statistics the average Japanese laborer receives a paycheck one-eighth the amount of that given to an American and one-third the amount given to a British worker. But this comparison is unfair. The real truth lies in the sum of goods and services the Japanese laborer can acquire with his wages, in terms of real returns, compensation in Japanese export...
...bout of typhoid fever that brought his weight down from 204 Ibs. to 99 Ibs. When he was on his feet again, he landed a job with a small contractor in Phoenix. One day, when he was working on the construction of a new grocery store, his paycheck bounced, and his employer disappeared. The grocer asked young Webb to take over the job, and the Del E. Webb Construction Co. was born. Its total assets: one cement mixer, ten wheelbarrows, 20 shovels and ten picks...
Dunbar's bulletin boards are full of its graduates' most satisfying diplomas: their first paycheck stubs. Last week one teacher proudly pointed to two more $176 (weekly) stubs, brought in by new bricklayers. "They get dirty after a few weeks," said the teacher. "But I always know there'll be fresh ones...