Word: va
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary was adamant. No Senator tried very hard to shake him. He went back down the Hill. Behind him he left the impression that, if he did not get substantially what he had asked for, he would resign and go back to his pleasant colonial house in Leesburg,Va...
Hawley starts work April 1 at $15,000 a year (he will also get $6,000 Army retirement pay) . He will find his potential practice nine times bigger than it was. In the VA he had 4,000,000 patients ; there are now 29,250,000 members in Blue Cross, 7,250,000 in Blue Shield. And that is only a beginning, announced Roy E. Larsen, president of Manhattan's United Hospital Fund† and former director of the New York Blue Cross. Blue Cross membership increased 15% last year; on that basis, Larsen said, it would take only...
From the depths of space-too deep to be reached by astronomers' light-telescopes-mysterious bodies continually bombard the earth with radio waves. No one knows much about these tuneless, codeless, cosmic broadcasts, but the National Bureau of Standards hopes to find out more. Last week, at Sterling, Va., 40 miles from Washington, Standards was building a radio observatory to study the waves and their origin. In charge of the observatory is young (35) Grote Reber, who broke into radio astronomy by developing a hobby...
Price's pet peeve: flying schools. In the air-conscious area in & about Los Angeles, the VA has footed a $3,523,385 tuition bill to date-and much of the money, says Price, was squandered. As soon as the initial glamor wore off, 4,144 would-be pilots quit without finishing their training. Radio announcing is another snare: Los Angeles stations employ only 140 regular announcers, and there is a waiting list of 475 already. And yet many ex-G.I.s are enrolled at four announcing schools in Los Angeles alone...
Fairmont, W. Va...