Word: va
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They only upshot of a hastily-withdrawn VA policy, however, was the establishment yesterday by the Vets Office here of a ledger-card attendance check for veterans on P.L. 346 or 16 in the Law School and the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences...
...Staunton, Va., City Manager W. Guy Ancell hoped that, by raising the water level in the city's North River dam, he could save the $300,000 it would cost to build a new reservoir. So he tried bombing cumulus clouds with dry ice. But no rain fell. All that happened was that citizens started calling him "Old Rain-in-the Face" and an elderly constituent sternly advised him to "leave God's work alone and straighten out the traffic mess...
Miss Witt also disclosed that the Veterans Office is currently doing more extra work for the VA than ever before in order to expedite checks. She pointed to the sheafs of forms filled out by veterans at registration, the handling of which, she said, would be finished by October 11. The data will then be forwarded to the VA...
...clearing up of the summer's late-check difficulties should also serve to speed up fall subsistence. She said that when the Vets Office survey on how many students were behind in checks this summer showed between 25 and 35 percent, the information had been relayed to the VA's New England branch of the Vocational Rehabilitation and Educational Section...
...meeting, scheduled for 7:30 o'clock, the forms needed by the VA to insure prompt and efficient handling of checks for College men will be distributed, filled out, and collected. New veterans who fail to attend may experience serious delays in the receipt of subsistence allotments...