Railroad Retirement Legislation: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, House of Representatives, Eighty-fourth Congress, Second Session ...

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Considers legislation increasing railroad employee and employee dependent annuities and revising the eligibility and dual pension requirements for annuities.

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Page 104 - Hemingway in his beliefs that "he travels the fastest that travels alone" and that "the female of the species is more deadly than the male"; and Hemingway seems to reflect Kipling in the submissive infra-AngloSaxon women that make his heroes such perfect mistresses.
Page 119 - The slothful hideth his hand in his bosom; it grieveth him to bring it again to his mouth.
Page 129 - The committee shall examine the actuarial reports and estimates made by the Railroad Retirement Board and shall have authority to recommend to the Board such changes in actuarial methods as they may deem necessary.
Page 105 - employment" as defined In that Act: or (III) a pension will have been payable to him; or a retirement annuity based on service of not less than ten years (as computed In awarding the annuity) will have begun to accrue to him before 1948. (Section 5(1) (7) of the act.) An employee will have been "partially Insured...
Page 261 - The hearing is adjourned. [Whereupon, at 11:50 am, the subcommittee was adjourned, to reconvene at the call of the Chair.] [The following material was received for the record.] of aep««m«t«ie« Committee on Cnergp anb Commerce SC 20515 March 22, 1991 Ms.
Page 4 - Generally, 10 years of railroad service and a current connection with the railroad industry are required.
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Page 55 - That any such acquisition of real property shall not deprive any State or political subdivision thereof of its civil or criminal jurisdiction in and over such property or impair the civil rights under the State or local laws of the inhabitants on such property...
Page 101 - That where service in the period 1924-31 in the one case, or in the period September 1940 to August 1941 in the other case, is, in the judgment of the Board, insufficient to constitute a fair and equitable basis for determining the amount of compensation paid or attributable as...
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