Word: vet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vets have taken free schooling. Cost to the Government: $18.7 billion. A Korean-war vet with dependents gets $160 a month while studying...
...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...
...round project for local industries. On his return to the Press, where he writes a fishing column, he also found time to write stories on the handicapped and chivvy personnel managers into hiring them. As a result, Houston employers hired 2,280 handicapped people in 1953. When a crippled vet gets out of a hospital in Houston, boasts Anderson, "he don't loaf more than 36 hours." For those still in the hospital, Anderson puts on a wild-game dinner every fall. Last year he fed 5,000 disabled veterans on 100 deer, 1,500 ducks and numerous quail...
...Davison packed his bags, investigators began to "P.V." (for "Positively Vet") 14,000 scientists and clerks in Britain's atom project. The British recognize that American misgivings about British security measures are one reason why the U.S. refuses to trade atomic information with its closest ally...
...enlarged upon one of its earlier ideas in March, 1948, when it opened the first political action school for the education of the voter and the person interested in politics. In the fall of 1946 it had started a "make every vet a voter" program by setting up a booth in front of Widener and giving veterans information on candidates and outlining requirements for registration and voting in all the states...