Word: va
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Another worry is the recent sharp increase in housing credit, particularly in certain Veterans Administration and Federal Housing Administration insured loans. In February the VA, which already has $27 billion out in loans, got applications "for 104,000 more loans, the highest monthly total since October 1950, and 86% more than a year ago. Almost 40% of the VA's loans require no down payment, give up to 30 years to pay, thus putting consumers in debt for too long a time. Some no-down loans even cover the mortgage closure costs, while in Texas one lender advertises...
Counsel for Mother Jones. Davis was born in 1873 in Clarksburg, W. Va., on April 13, the birthday of Thomas Jefferson, and he became one of his country's staunchest advocates of the democracy of Jefferson. As a West Virginia attorney Davis once joined Socialist Eugene V. Debs in defending the United Mine Workers' firebrand organizer, Octogenarian "Mother" Mary Jones, on charges of inciting a riot in a coal strike...
...informal squad will travel by car and is scheduled to meet V.P.I. on Monday night. The runners will face Davidson in North Carolina on Tuesday and then compete in a triangular meet in Richmond, Va., against Hampton-Sydney and Richmond...
...VA Hospital in Boston has developed an artificial eye that moves and twinkles. Made of plastic (with rayon threads imbedded to look like veins), it has a magnet built in. It moves in obedience to another magnet set in the muscles that formerly controlled the lost...
...head off inflation in real estate many a banker (and privately, some Government officials) believes that VA mortgage terms should be tightened immediately, require at least 5% down and run no longer than 25 years. Housing inflation, said V. R. Steffensen, senior vice president of the First Security Bank of Utah, could damage not only homeowners and the construction industry but the entire economy...