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...irregular meals, irregular hours and times of sleep, and constant climatic changes that at best are not conducive to good health. Remember that we take a rigid physical exam every six months and on the day we fail to pass, we're thru. Remember that TWA has no pension plan whatever...
Rejection Slip. In Olympia, Wash., Bachelor Robert Wright, veteran of World Wars I & II, applied for a pension, was advised by the War Department that he had been killed in action, told that his widow should apply...
...Glasgow University, trying to make up his mind whether he was headed for the Scottish Presbyterian ministry or for politics. (In Scotland, up to a point, training for either is training for both.) His father, a shipwright, died that year, and his firm gave McNeil's mother a pension of ?26 a year ($125). "That," says McNeil, "was when I turned to Socialism...
...Brien plans to work as an elevator operator at the First National Bank after his vacation. "It's not much," he said, "but it will give me something to do. Besides, a $40 per month pension isn't much...
Emily retired in 1933 to her mountain cabin, on a $50 monthly pension (she was offered twice as much, but didn't think it fair to take more than other retired schoolmarms). Opportunity is still going strong, under a male principal. Some 21,230-about 7% of Denver's population-took courses this past year; 5,000 attended every day. There were 285 teachers, and 187 subjects. The average student age had dropped from 35 to 28, thanks to 1,966 veterans-who signed up mostly for such courses as auto mechanics, refrigeration and airconditioning...