Word: gi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GI Bill payments for University veterans should be out "soon," General William J. Blake '13, regional manager of the Boston Veterans Administration, said yesterday...
...major problem faced by Elliott and his staff is the declining enrollment of graduates from Harvard and elsewhere. There were 121 less grad students in 1951 that in 1950. Elliott attributes this to dwindling GI Bill benefits and to a lack of varied and numerous graduate courses...
...know how many of the features I've sent back are getting printed, but I suppose a lot of the tactical stuff gets play. Most startling to a civilian eye: the total destruction of some towns; the filthy, disease-ridden, starved condition of most off the Koreans; the GI's casual acceptance of battle and death while he bitches about the mud, the dust, the food, the officers, the hills that must be climbed, the months and months away from home; the politicking in the Army; and what seems to be the uselessness of this war as we go back...
...Information Service. Library was full of books on education, agriculture, mechanics, etc., generally practical stuff to help modernize and so forth. The building had been bombed and the books were lying around two rooms, about knee deep on the floor, pages torn, broken glass between them, muddied pages where GI's had stepped through the pile. I bent down to pick up a book. What was it? Obviously, it was "General Education in a Free Society," intact but not looking as if it had been well-read here where society is not free and education is not general. Thought...
...said, "Genuine Chino Trousers." Vag stopped and looked at the trousers, smooth and careful as they hung in the window, then he turned and went into the store. It would be getting warmer, thought Vag, and the way things stood now, at least, a couple of pairs of cheap GI pants might be pretty hard to come...