Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, D.C. Oct. 18--A new G.I. Bill of Rights granting educational aid to veterans of the Korean war will almost certainly be passed in the next session of Congress, Representative John E. Rankin (D.-Miss.), chairman of the House Committee on Veteran's Affairs, told the CRIMSON today...
...significant departure from the old measure, the new bill would pay for only a part of a veteran's schooling instead of aiming at giving him a complete education. Teague disclosed last night...
...sources of most flagrant abuse, the committee found, was the government's obligation under the old law to buy all books and supplies authorized by a veteran's school. The new bill will probably authorize a fixed monthly sum for subsistence, books, and supplies...
...Bureau of Public Road sent some of its best road builders. A 21,638-mile national highway system was designed. A veteran Public Roads man named Fred D. Hartford lived for months in a trailer with his wife while touring Turkey, building strong, cheap, simple steel bridges of his own design (Turks now call these bridges Hartfords). Today, no matter where you travel between the communications centers of Turkey, you see orange bulldozers, scoops, graders and gangs of men at work. In three years, some 2,500 miles of first-class highway have been...
Hours later, at 20,000 feet over the Atlantic-while Elizabeth slumbered in the 6-by-4-ft. bed of her private cabin-the plane began to nudge the edge of a hurricane. The pilot, Captain Oscar Philip Jones, 52, veteran of 3,000,000 air miles, shifted his course, made an unscheduled fuel stop at bleak Gander, Newfoundland. Airborne again after two hours, Elizabeth visited Jones at the controls-asking, he reported later, "some knowledgeable questions." At noon the plane let down through heavy overcast at Montreal's Dorval airport before a crowd of more than...