Word: on-the-job
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Heretofore available only to a small number of veterans of the Korean War, the benefits will continue "for the duration of the emergency" and for nine years thereafter. Veterans will be given school or on-the-job training, with all tuition, supplies, and a subsistence allowance paid by the Veterans Administration...
...educational experiment in its history. More than 8,000,000 veterans drew $9.7 billion in subsistence, and spent another $4 billion on tuition, equipment and counseling at 21,000 schools. Some G.I.s took advantage of the bill without going to school; 1,830,000 men were paid for on-the-job training, and 742,000 trained on farms...
...Veterans Administration read the letter and got the shock of its life. For the past three years, a disabled World War II veteran wrote, he had been getting $100 a month for on-the-job training as a butcher, and $12 to $15 a month in disability payments. "Now," he said, "I feel like the Government has done enough for me, especially with so many fellows coming back from Korea all shot up. There are enough of us sucking the country dry, and it's time . . . we started giving." Enclosed were two Government checks, totaling $126.40, which...
...refinery to a virtual standstill and produced 1,200 grievances. Only one appeared legitimate; a worker complained that his section of the plant was not properly ventilated. Others urged that the refinery negotiator be dumped in the nearby Houston Ship Channel, that the company provide workers with an on-the-job burlesque show; a third said that he got his pants wet from dew on weeds outside the refinery. Protesting that the union was pulling an illegal version of the sit-down strike, Crown Petroleum closed down the entire refinery for safety reasons. Later, the company offered to resume operations...
...Passed a bill to increase on-the-job training payments for World War II veterans (up from $200 to $290 a month for a veteran with two dependents). House approval is expected soon...