Word: va
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Feb. 21 report on the VA: Thank God for the U.S. Veterans Administration. If it had not been for it, I would have been dead of cancer over a year ago. Two operations by their grossly underpaid doctors saved me ... You speak of a 1,000-bed hospital with only 385 beds in use; every day men who fought . . for their country are turned away to perhaps die because these beds are not being opened to them. How callous can people get? Everyone should know of the surgical wards in some VA hospitals where one lonely nurse...
...While the A.M.A. so actively damns the VA medical program, I'd like to mention that there are plenty of us who are most grateful for it ... In this we feel the A.M.A. should be taking the lead to correct a situation rather than condemning the one way out of serious difficulty for some, i.e., Government help...
...response, to his story that Palmer enjoyed most came from Frederick Emerson Peters, who is a fabulous impersonator and confidence man. Recently, Palmer received a letter from Peters that was sent from a cell in the Lorton, Va. penitentiary. Peters wrote that he had read the TIME story about Palmer in the prison dentist's office, recalled that he had once met Palmer long ago, and sent him a $50 check for the project...
Sheltering Smoke. Speaking last week to the Charleston (W. Va.) chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Major General William M. Creasy of the Army Chemical Corps described a partial measure of atomic defense. One way to reduce casualties from nuclear explosions, he said, is to cover each threatened city with a blanket of dense, black smoke...
Convertible Boat. A steel, all-purpose boat that looks like a shallow square box on pontoons has been developed by Trail-Craft Corp. of Clarksburg, W. Va. Designed for use with an outboard motor, the boat weighs 230 lbs., can carry 750 Ibs. as a trailer, and also converts into a tent for four, a duck blind, a wading pool, a swimming raft. Price (including tent top and four cots...