Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...developing and diversifying tactical A-bombs to reduce the need for Ridgway's big land armies, and is disengaging U.S. ground troops wherever possible from the Communist frontiers. Last week, at the annual work-and-play conference of 170 military and civilian defense leaders at Quantico, Va., Defense Secretary Charles Wilson characteristically brushed off Ridgway's message as "not very important," and announced that he was planning to pull out one of the three U.S. divisions in the Far East before next June 30; Wilson further proclaimed that he did not propose to spend an extra $46 million...
...linen campaign tent, sleeping shelter of General George Washington when he was in the field, was acquired for $10,000 (part of it donated anonymously to the U.S.) by the National Park Service, which will pitch it in a historical park in Yorktown, Va. The sellers: four Virginia ladies, all heiresses of General Robert E. Lee. In the line of inheritance, the old tent went first to Washington's widow Martha, later to her grandson, George Washington Parke Custis, and from him to his daughter Mary Anne Custis Lee, wife of the great Confederate commander...
...about nine years the Navy has tried to retrain 48,000 problem personnel, succeeded in restoring 14,000 to duty-enough to man four big aircraft carriers. Last week the Elliott psychology project was being studied at the Navy's two other retraining commands, Portsmouth, N.H. and Norfolk, Va., to see whether this rate can be bettered...
...house in 1943, sold it to the Government for $31,500. (Since appraised at $67,857.) Brady and neighbors were allowed to rent their homes on a month-to-month basis "until such time as the premises are ... actually needed for purpose for which purchased." Later, the VA changed its mind about building the hospital, continued to rent the houses...
Recently, the VA made a surprising discovery: while 13 of the tenants were paying rents in line with the prevailing level, Brady was not. The VA had signed a contract with Brady to accept $1 from him "in full payment of all rental during the term of occupancy." Just how this had happened, the VA did not know. Last week the Government brought suit to evict Brady. At week's end Brady, 69, was unruffled by the suit, looked forward to a ripe, rent-free...