Word: pensionable
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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While Parliament considered boosting his pension 800% (to $6,926 a year), Composer Jean Sibelius celebrated a quiet 85th birthday at his home, Ainola, near Jarvenpaa, opened a few presents, including 500 cigars, saw a few visitors, including President Juho Paasikivi, who brought along a present: a solid gold medal weighing about a pound...
...Home. In Unionville, Ont., John W. Perkins, who issues government permits for radios, was fined $5 for failing to license the radios in his house and hardware store. Near Palmerston, Ont., Dr. I. W. James, chief of the Gunshot Wounds section of the Pension Commission, went hunting, shot himself in the foot...
...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
...benefits, which are a sort of insurance pension, do not apply to students employed by the University who are enrolled and regularly attending classes...
...also reluctantly took a further step that ran counter to everything that liberals-and Harry Truman himself-had long stood for. Few businessmen, however patriotic, he concluded, would willingly leave the security of their jobs, their pension rights and their privacy for the modest pay and the hazards of reputation that go with Government jobs...