Word: paychecks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Hitler was preparing to invade Russia, that the first buyer anted up $18.75 for the first $25 Series E bond. By last year 2.7 billion of them, $67.5 billion worth, had been sold to kids who brought in their pennies and workers who had money deducted from each paycheck. Sales held steady over the years, even though inflation made the bonds a bad investment. But the expense of processing them went up so much that it did not pay to issue them. "The cost is the same whether the bond is $25 or $100," says a Treasury official...
...accustomed to living a certain lifestyle, and all of a sudden they find that they cannot take an annual vacation or send their second child to college. This leads to resentment and frustration. Family finances become clouded in secrecy, and neither spouse has a good understanding of where the paycheck is going...
...oddest celebrations is the Great Gobbler Gallop in Cuero, Texas, a town of 7,000 that raises 200,000 turkeys a year. There, a local fowl named Ruby Begonia disgraced the honor of Texas by losing to a bird named Paycheck from Worthington, Minn. But the gaiety...
...Bruins to two Stanley Cup titles and then, his knees already battered, went to the Black Hawks in 1976. He was still better than most, but he was not himself. His contract called for a salary of $600,000 a year, yet he had not cashed a single paycheck when he quit last week after seven operations had failed to save his knees. He refused to be paid unless he delivered, and Bobby Orr, like Tunney and Hull, always delivered the best...
Both of Stratton's parents are ministers, but she was a predental student at Indiana University in Pennsylvania when she joined ROTC for the physical challenge and the $100-a-month paycheck. She liked ROTC so much that she decided to concentrate on soldiering. She won her commission in June...