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...Sickness & Age. By far the biggest vet programs are for health and pensions. The VA operates 170 hospitals with 117,000 beds, 4,160 doctors, 904 dentists and 13,799 nurses. Bill for the postwar hospital-building program: $750 million. Hospital and medical care cost $4 billion since 1947 and now runs $600 million a year. The American Medical Association, wary of "socialized medicine," criticizes the free care given those vets with no service-connected ailment or injury. According to the General Accounting Office, the service-connected cases cared for by the VA are outnumbered about...
Each year the VA pays $2.5 billion in pensions to 3,800,000 veterans or their surviving dependents, including one Civil War survivor, ten dependents of Mexican War veterans and 226 durable veterans of the Indian wars. The War of 1812's last pensioner (Mrs. Esther Morgan of Independence, Ore. whose veteran father died in 1905) dropped off the VA's rolls in 1946. With equal longevity, the last Korean-war pensioner would be paid off in 2087 A.D. Disability payments can run up to $400 or more a month, but most of them are much smaller. Pressure...
Died. Clement L. Shaver, 87, abstemious lawyer who successfully put over the nomination of fellow West Virginian John W. Davis for President at the famed 103-ballot 1924 Democratic Convention, as national chairman managed Davis' unsuccessful campaign against Calvin Coolidge; after long illness; in Fairmont, W. Va...
...high but only 29 ft. wide by So ft. long (smaller than a standard Army barracks). To prove that an atomic power plant can be sufficiently tamed to live close to civilization, the Army will build the new model at the Army Engineer School at Fort Belvoir, Va., 18 miles down the Potomac from Washington. Estimated completion date...
...Long regarded as an intruder at regular air bases, the military helicopter is coming into its own at Fort Eustis, Va., where the Army is constructing the world's largest helicopter airport. Built with an eye toward experimentation in loading and maintenance techniques, the $970,000 heliport looks like a superhighway cloverleaf intersection, boasts two 600-ft. asphalt runways (for heavily laden 'copters) and a giant, circular taxiway, surrounded by eight dust-free warmup "pads." In this specialized setting the Army hopes to devise methods for mass operation of cargo and troop-carrying 'copters with something close...