Word: paycheck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dictum. In Cincinnati, Judge Charles S. Bell paused in the course of hearing a divorce suit to deliver a parenthetical opinion: it is a serious mistake for any man to hand over his entire paycheck to his wife...
Pilot Proctor turned in his company manuals, collected his paycheck ($13,000 a year) and logged his day's flight for the last time. "I don't want to quit flying," he admitted. "No flyer ever will." But Heath Proctor, who had watched the airlines graduate from a risky adventure to a workaday routine, had passed his 60th birthday-the first man on any U.S. airline ever to reach retirement age while still a pilot...
...said to him, 'Young man, it's too bad you never lived in a free country.' He got a little red-faced and said 'I do live in a free country.' So I said 'Well . . . I remember when the paycheck I got was my own and I could spend it as I liked. Can you spend yours as you like?' " A few minutes later, the governor showed the bewildered budget man the door...
...told to stop denouncing unification and the "Prussian-minded" Department of Defense, had disobeyed. Last week Chief of Naval Operations Forrest Sherman ordered him placed on indefinite furlough at half pay, beginning next month. The order, by stripping Crommelin of his flight pay and allowances, will reduce his monthly paycheck from $1,041.75 to $334.87. Obviously the Navy hoped Crommelin would take the hint and leave active service: he was eligible to retire at $452.08 a month, based on his 27 years of service...