Word: servicemen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Returning Korea servicemen will swell the number of veterans in the University to more than a thousand next year for the first time since 1949, the Committee on Veteran Affairs reported yesterday...
...province. The U.S. will make some $2,500,000 worth of local purchases in the coming year, plus another $500,000 worth of PX supplies. Such incidentals as a $100,000 charter fee for a motor vessel to transport island supplies, almost $87,000 rental paid by off-base servicemen and $16,000 tuition to local schools attended by children of military personnel, help to give the economy a powerful shot...
Many live in trailers in order to get from job to job (defense workers and servicemen account for more than 52% of the market). But more & more retired couples, tired of housecleaning chores and high living costs, are moving into homes on wheels. "Many people have the idea that only gypsies or tramps live in trailers," said one housewife on wheels in Arizona. "We are semi-retired and have a business employing 1,000 people...
...millions contributed to well-organized community chests are distributed among some 17,000 services. Among them: Y.M.C.A., Y.W.C.A., Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Visiting Nurses, Salvation Army, settlement houses, neighborhood centers, etc. Since the Korean war, one of the Red Feather agencies is the United Defense Fund, which includes such servicemen's agencies as the U.S.O...
Sometimes the surge toward self-reliance bursts into the kind of truculence, resentment or restiveness that sets American taxpayers to muttering about rank ingratitude. In Britain, the yellow press makes cheap capital out of the so-called "G.I. problem," involving 35,000 U.S. servicemen manning U.S. bomber bases there. In Italy, a U.S. official reported that he could detect "by osmosis" that Italians are getting a little tired of U.S. advice...