Word: va
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...mention a town in Illinois. The U.S. is also dotted with Alices (3) Floras (6), Hildas (2), Iones (7) Marthas (3), and Stellas (6), plus Edith, Texas, Gladys, Va., Peggy, Texas, Rosa, La., Ursa, Ill., Wilma, Fla. and Zelda...
...serious, heavily accented explanation of the nation's own German born rocket experts, Willy Ley and Wernher von Braun. To pay a Person-to-Person (CBS Fri. 10:30 p.m., E.S.T.) visit to Internal Revenue Boss T. Coleman Andrews at his modest 4½-room apartment in Parkfairfax, Va., CBS's Ed Murrow unearthed an odd fact: Collector Andrews leaves the job of making out his own tax returns to his 30-year...
...year mortgages backed by the Government through the Veterans Administration. The no-down-payment terms were originally designed to help veterans during the critical postwar housing shortage, were expected to taper off as the shortage eased. But actually, no-down-payment loans have climbed from 8% of all VA-guaranteed loans in 1953 to more than a third by the end of last year. Almost 10% of the loans are the no-no-down-payment type; they even cover the $200-$300 closing costs. Thus many a buyer often has not paid a cent to purchase a home...
...Latins a brawling way of running it, and from Tammany Hall the ways to get around it. The new Japanese army was modeled after Prussia's, the navy after Britain's, and the battleships came by way of the latest designs of Clydeside and Newport News, Va. The Japanese bought Manhattan's disassembled Sixth Avenue Elevated as scrap iron (and returned it later with a bang). They also borrowed, from Britain's successful example of the 17th to null centuries, the notion that a poor island nation has a right and a destiny to build...
...Make it harder for veterans to get treatment for nonservice disabilities (at present, more than half of the 100,000 beds in VA hospitals are taken up by such cases at an estimated cost of $500 million a year). To get care for nonservice disabilities, veterans now have only to say that they cannot afford treatment elsewhere. Henceforth, recommended the Commission, such statements should be verified...