Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate Judiciary Committee put off action on the civil rights issue again yesterday, but Chairman Eastland (D-Miss.) said it probably would begin considering the legislation April 29. Eastland wouldn't predict when the committee might take a vote, but Sen. Neely (D-W. Va.) offered an estimate that it never would...
...your March 25 article on veterans' homebuilding, you say "The American Legion backs the increase in the VA interest rate." This reads like a lie to this legionnaire of W. W II. But after all, I forgot that some legionnaires of W.W. I ,are now the fattened money lenders of W.W. II. They deserve the Purple Heart for the wounds they suffer at the rate of 4½%. Did anybody ever stop to think that the prices of houses are too damned high...
...delicate work of depositing the coatings was done by the Army Engineers at Fort Belvoir, Va. Each satellite was put in a vacuum chamber and turned, like a chicken on a spit while the materials in the coatings were evaporated electrically and deposited on its surface. The final coat was a second layer of silicon monoxide...
...Investigator Bob Kennedy hopped back and forth across the country drawing together the findings. When the pieces of the Teamster puzzle began to fall into place, Kennedy returned to Washington, resumed a routine that was as strenuous as his field work. Rising at 6:45 a.m. at his McLean, Va. home, he went horseback riding with his wife Ethel (they have five children ranging from six months to five years) before going to the office, divided his day between hearings and office work, e.g., checking the 500 tips (one-third worthwhile) pouring in each day. Since they have a staff...
...believes that simply raising the rate to 5% will solve the veterans' problems. For one thing, such a move would not create any additional capital in the tight-money market. But unless the VA program is brought into line with interest rates in the open market, vets may find themselves without any help at all. Warns VA Chief Benefits Director Ralph H. Stone: "If this 4½% rate is maintained without providing some alternative support to the veterans' housing market, the unavoidable consequence will be the phasing out of the VA program...