Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news: Clouds grounded the newsmen in Elkins, W. Va., buses bounced them over back roads to Pennsylvania, hotel rooms were reserved and unreserved in Pittsburgh, and eventually, when they caught up with Candidate Stevenson in New York, the rally for him in Harlem was over. In short, wrote Reporter Matthews in his light-hearted spoof, most of the efficiency and all pamper had been lost on the campaign trail...
Bent over his drafting board at an Army Engineers' installation in Alexandria, Va., Private Norman L. Hickey, 27, felt a sudden tightening around his chest -"as though someone had been screwing down a metal band around it, and I was shaking like a leaf." He worked on. Next day, too nauseated to eat, Hickey felt the tightness return. He gave up, went on sick call. Doctors, unable to decide what ailed him, even sent him to a fever isolation ward before he ended up in the cardiac clinic of Walter Reed Army Hospital. Because his case was so tricky...
...what state they had left that morning. In Nashville at 10 a.m., he asked his audience to "consider with me tonight for just a few days" and said he would like to "talk just a bittle." Only once did he really get under the Democratic skin: in Wheeling, W. Va., remarking that Ike's health was no longer really an issue, he asked "how Mr. Stevenson's other kidney is doing today...
VETERANS' HOME LOANS will get help from David Dubinsky's International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Dubinsky signed agreement with Chase Manhattan Bank to invest $20 million (some 10% of union reserves) in VA home mortgages...
...builders were not so sure. The real trouble is a drastic shortage of mortgage money because of the limit of 4½% interest on Government-backed mortgages v. up to 6% on conventional mortgage loans. Said San Francisco Builder Carl Gellert: "Congress next year should raise interest rates on VA mortgages, making them flexible so they can respond to the tight-money market. Money is like any other commodity. If you make the terms attractive, you're going to bring more money into the market. At this time 4½% simply isn't attractive to a lender." Chicago...