Word: veteran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between terms or during the summer, the Scholarship Committee passed a mere "yes" or "no" decision on his future award, and then when he returned it decided the amount of his scholarship on the basis of his new financial status. Though a new application was required from the returning veteran, if he had held a scholarship before serving, he was given preference in consideration of the new awards...
...charges were duplicated in London's more flamboyant papers, always alert for a sensation. In a front-page article, the tabloid Daily Mirror (circ. 4,500,000) flatly charged that "the world is not getting the truth" about the war. The reason, wrote Mirror Correspondent Davis Walker, a veteran World War II reporter, was due to the "dreadfully distorted" news coming from "Alice-in-Wonderland information handed out at high level...
...billion in FHA and VA guaranteed loans made it possible for a veteran to buy an $8,000 house for as little as $56 a month with no down payment. Consumer credit soared above $20 billion, up about $2 billion in a year. Warned gaunt, grey Economist Edwin G. Nourse: the U.S. was traveling too fast down the "slippery road" of credit...
...Force Veteran Mark Allison first saw the jungles of the Amazon when he flew over them as a Pan Am pilot before the war. They fascinated him-and so did a little Brazilian's yarn about an unexplored Amazon valley region which promised gold and probably oil. But soon after he set out with his wife in a private plane to look for the promised land, Pilot Allison crashed and his wife was killed. Shorn of the will to go on as a pilot, Allison settled down in the dreary river town of Manaos, became a hard-drinking...
...Balance Wheel was plainly intended to be read as a political-economic allegory. Veteran Caldwell fans may ignore such implications, and read the book for the same reason they listen to soap opera: to get the dirt, dished by an expert, on a dozen or more private lives...