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...looked up his father, who lives on a pension in a Joplin shack, and announced that he was "going to live by the gun." Then he made his way to the hot little desert town of Blythe, Calif., got a job as a dishwasher. On the night before Christmas, Cook disappeared. He bobbed up in El Paso and bought a .32-caliber automatic pistol. After that he started out to fulfill his promise...
Last week, with the promised pay. increases, an extra week's vacation (to start in 1952) and a new pension scheme under their belts, Britain's miners set out to redeem their pledge. To give them added zeal, every miner in the country got a letter starting "Dear Friend," printed in a reproduction of the Prime Minister's handwriting. The letter said: "The nation looks to you; I am sure you will not fail . . ." It was signed "C. R. Attlee...
...been at 22. For his four daring attempts to escape from his Moorish captors, he spent ten months chained in a cell. When the ransom money finally came, he returned to a Spain that had all but forgotten the heroes of Lepanto, and that could not spare him a pension. The 36-year-old veteran settled down to manufacture a blizzard of uninspired poems, unsuccessful plays and a pastoral novel, while his illegitimate daughter, his wife, his mother and his two sisters, all of whom he supported, looked hopefully over his shoulder...
...Cleveland, longtime Pension Planner Dr. Francis E. Townsend, 83, dug up a copy of his 1906 marriage license to prove his age and complete his application for a social security pension...
...article yesterday in the New York Times, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, outlined four ways to curb inflation and at the same time reduce consequent inequalities. They are: 1) cost-of-living wage adjustments under social security; 2) corresponding pension adjustments under social security; 3) rent control permitting at net incomes of landlords to rise as much as the consumer's price index; and 4) opportunity for savers to buy securities that will automatically depreciate in purchasing power as prices rise