Sentences with phrase «paid by the railroads»

Railway surgeons were paid by the railroads and evaluated patients filing injury claims against the rail systems, so patients and even fellow physicians suspected their medical judgment might serve their employers» interests.

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Under its lease with the county, the railroad pays a 5 percent fee, based on net, which can be offset by capital expenses.

ALBANY, NY — Separate audits of Metro - North Railroad and the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) found they failed to properly manage overtime paid by funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), allowing abuses such as allowing some conductors to charge overtime for tasks such as washing up for work, New York State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli announced today.

Your benefit amount may be affected by military service, railroad employment or pensions earned through work on which you did not pay Social Security tax.

Mallinson points out that many Western and Hudson River School painters of the 19th century were paid by «railroad titans to promote the settling of the West» and the concept of Manifest Destiny; domination was woven into the paintings» compositional structure.

That's the story of railroad infrastructure in America: creaky and underfinanced, shakily propped up by riders paying ever higher fares....

Your benefit amount may be affected by military service, railroad employment or pensions earned through work on which you did not pay Social Security tax.