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...paper, the end looked wonderful. Alberta's Bill of Rights guaranteed the fundamental rights of worship, speech, lawful assembly, and a few more. Among the added starters: 1) a minimum income of $600 a year to every adult Albertan, 2) a pension for all from 19 to 60 years who were unemployed or unemployable; 3) all the necessaries of life and education for those under 19; and 4) retirement benefits for folks over...
...tickled by the education gadgets (building blocks, boards with colored pegs) that helped to make learning more fun in the U.S. Other differences: more paper work; the higher cost of living (her English school still pays her salary, which comes to a scant $25 a week after tax and pension deductions); the unpopularity of walking as a recreation; the way U.S. children sing familiar nursery rhymes, e.g., London Bridge Is Falling Down, Sing a Song of Sixpence, to unfamiliar tunes. A five-year-old in her class is a self-appointed interpreter ("Miss Eades means banana...
Among the regular expenses, wages and salaries accounted for $12,600,600, or more than half of the total amount, with wages running slightly heavier than the salaries of Corporation appointees. Equipment and supplies took 27 percent of the expense dollar, while pension monies accounted for another 3 percent and scholarship funds...
...club will join with Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on three separate occasions, singing Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms in Boston and in Carnegie Hall in New York. They will also do Brahms's Requiem with the BSO and the Radcliffe Choral Society in the annual Pension Fund Concert in Symphony Hall...
...itself, business must "stop making noises like a corporation." It must work to restore a sense of "togetherness" between management and labor. It must show that management and labor have the same interests by backing 1) decent minimum-wage legislation, 2) higher educational appropriations, 3) annual wage plans, 4) pension programs. It should do this, if for no other reason, because it paid off in dollars and cents...