Word: methods
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...were out for more than a month to get a $100 pension. The bitter Chrysler strike, for a $100-a-month pension, ended last fortnight, after 100 days of idleness. The two strikes, costly to both management & labor, had one significant point in common: they were fought over the method of paying for the pension, not over the pension itself. The U.S. is so security-minded that the real question asked about pension plans is no longer...
...subsidiaries-which roll sickness, accident, disability, death and pension benefits all into one jumbo package. Bell started the plans in 1913 on a pay-as-you-go basis, but in 1927 started setting up a reserve fund for pensions ("funding") because it thought the method sounder. (A.T. & T. now has more than $1 billion in its pension funds.) In computing Bell pensions, an employee's length of service is taken as a percentage (e.g., 20 years = 20%) and multiplied by his average annual pay for his ten highest-paid years (usually the ten years preceding retirement). The minimum pension...
Bloodletting, almost as old as surgery itself, has lately been out of favor. But in the current American Journal of Surgery, two Cleveland doctors recommend a bloodletting technique so radical and daring that an oldtime chirurgeon would have paled at the thought of it. Their method: deliberately drain away the patient's blood, in amounts up to 2½ or even 3 quarts, during certain serious types of surgery, then replace it as needed...
Since early March, Howell has ordered seedlings of silver iodide smoke from the ground level. This method was also tried between 1 and 4:15 p.m. Saturday. Howell said that there were two showers east of the Catskills when he began seeding but that "there were no showers over the Catskills until after the cloud-seeding...
...seemed like the most surefire method ever devised to pry a contribution out of a citizen's pocket. "Lights On," it was called, and after working wonders in Phoenix, Ariz., it spread last week to Omaha...