Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When veteran Suburb Builder Andres F. Oddstad Jr., boss of "Homes by Sterling," broke ground for Linda Mar, the already overburdened local (Laguna Sa-lada) school district found itself facing a 50% increase in enrollment. Required for the new pupils: additional school buses (cost: $60,000) and double or triple classroom shifts in the district's three schools. Funds were short; conventional new public schools would take months, perhaps years, to finance and build...
...Ford Foundation's Fund for the Republic announced the appointment of a new consultant: Elmer Davis, 64, best-selling author (But We Were Born Free), veteran radio newscaster, wartime chief of the Office of War Information...
...biggest jump was in mercury, which has soared over 85% from the January low of $187 for a 76-lb. flask. Last week mercury rose another $4 to $6 a flask, causing one veteran trader to complain that "the market's just plain crazy." But there was a reason: producers were not running their mines full tilt to take care of big new demands for the metal (e.g., in the atomic field) for fear that the demand would disappear while they were spending a lot of money expanding. But when the Administration recently guaranteed the producers a fixed market...
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...
None of the indictments to date concerned the well-publicized windfall profits siphoned off from FHA-backed apartment mortgages. Most of them related to the Title I home-improvement program, which offered wide opportunities to veteran con men. The sharpers obtained loan money by inflating estimates of construction costs, supplying fictitious credit ratings, forging signatures on notes, faking project-completion certificates, etc. Some of the loans were diverted to making auto and alimony payments, and even to paying gambling debts...