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...Navy Retreats. The Utah, sunk in her old age by Japanese bombers, lay rusting on the floor of Pearl Harbor when, in 1947, the Navy decided that Mrs. Crawshaw was entitled to a partial pension. She was not satisfied with a halfway victory, and continued to fight. In 1948, she forced the Navy to list Crawshaw's death as an accident...
...violent nausea. Her theory was that he had fallen overboard while standing at the ship's railing during one of these seizures. Because the Navy had ruled that Crawshaw died from his own misconduct, his widow got no Government insurance. Neither she nor her daughter would receive a pension. Ruth Crawshaw, who went back to nursing, was determined to clear her husband's name. She began to bombard the Navy, the Veterans' Bureau, Congressmen and the White House with letters. Some powerful allies, including the American Legion, came to her aid. In 1926 the Navy reopened...
...chance comes when Haas goes stone deaf. While his pension is being arranged, the railroad sends a husky young replacement (Allan Nixon) to join him and his wife in the line shack. Haas suddenly regains his hearing in the shock of an automobile accident, but before he can tell anyone his exultant news, he runs into another shock. He hears Nixon wooing his wife, and his wife egging Nixon on to murder Haas-both blandly confident that he is deaf. While he goes on feigning deafness and eavesdropping in full view of the conspirators, the movie becomes a fascinating game...
Everyone agreed that the New York policeman's lot is not a happy one. A patrolman's pay during his first three years is $3,400 annually. Deductions for such things as pensions (some are paying as much as 23% of their salary into the pension fund), uniforms and even ammunition leave many a $3,400-a-year patrolman only $37.19 a week to take home. Since October, the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, which is not a union, has been asking the city to take a larger share of the pension load. It was pushing a bill...
...year man today keeps $48,100 after taxes; figured in terms of 1939 dollars, his take-home pay is only $26,070.* He works part of every day and full time every other day for the Government. As a result, many men who have piled up pension or other benefits refuse to take bigger jobs with bigger companies...