Word: vet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brothers Henry and Max he founded the Ex-G.I. Plastics Co., and soon they were going beyond at the startlingly successful rate of about $18,000 gross a week. Gimmick: the Krams crammed cheap plastic crucifixes into envelopes with letters asking $1 aid for a partially disabled vet, mailed them by the hundreds of thousands to Catholic-sounding names culled from phone books...
...training and teach them to be honest. If a girl finds she's going to have a baby, we don't ostracize her, we take care of her. Isn't it better to let her have an abortion in a hospital than go to a dirty vet, as she does in other countries...
...Depending on his condition, a Sawtelle patient may see a first-run movie, bowl, shoot pool, watch night baseball, attend church, get married, and be buried just a bugle call away from his buddies-all without leaving the hospital grounds. Says one 82-year-old Spanish-American War vet: "My boy, we're not just satisfied here. We're contented. I can't say enough good things for everyone...
...tough vet felt the same way-only more so. He was Charles C. Anderson, a St. Louis boy whose split home and large family forced him to go to work when he was twelve. In 1947, when he was 17, he at last found a home-in the Army...
Although the rise from 74 to 156 in the College may be the largest percentage increase, Lawson said the biggest numerical boost is in the Business School, where the vet total soared to 482 from 289. Entire enrollment at the Business School...