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  • When this "Readjustment" had been successfully put through, the burden was some forty or fifty millions larger than before, -- where those millions went is one of the mysteries to reward that future Carlyle!

    Together Robert Herrick 1903

  • Joint Chiefs chair: 'Readjustment' brings victory photo: Creative Commons/IowaPolitics. com

    WN.com - Articles related to Treaty to cut US-Russia nukes; signing in 2 weeks 2010

  • In 1944, Congress passed the Serviceman's Readjustment Act, popularly known as the G.I. Bill of Rights, which provided funding to U.S. veterans of World War II to obtain college educations, buy homes, and start businesses.

    William Lazonick: Nine Government Investments That Made Us an Industrial Economic Leader William Lazonick 2011

  • The case revolves around Vietnam War veteran Daniel A. Kirk, who was an employee of Schindler Elevator Corporation and suspected that the company was not in compliance with disclosure requirements under the Vietnam Era Readjustment Assistance Act of 1972.

    Project On Government Oversight: Supreme Court Makes it Harder to Hold Contractors Accountable for Fraud Project On Government Oversight 2011

  • Under the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, the government sent seven million Americans to school for free after World War II.

    Ellen Brown: Student Loans: The Government Is Now Officially in the Banking Business 2010

  • In the current issue of Poetry Review (Volume 100, No 2, Summer 2010), Aviva Dautch writes ('Existential Otherness and Constant Readjustment'): In PR (100:1) Pia Tafdrup recounts a childhood memory.

    Archive 2010-07-01 David McDuff 2010

  • Some recall that lawmakers passed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, less out of gratitude, than out of fear -- fear that at war's end an army of unemployed ex-servicemen would, again, march on Washington, as the "Bonus Army" did in 1932.

    Investing In Veterans Hon. Eric E. Shinseki 2010

  • In the current issue of Poetry Review (Volume 100, No 2, Summer 2010), Aviva Dautch writes ('Existential Otherness and Constant Readjustment'): In PR (100:1) Pia Tafdrup recounts a childhood memory.

    Review David McDuff 2010

  • Between 1944 and the expiration of the "GI Bill" (officially the Servicemen's Readjustment Act) in 1976, the association between military service and college education increased significantly.

    The True Costs Of The Iraq And Afghanistan Wars 2010

  • Some recall that lawmakers passed the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, less out of gratitude, than out of fear -- fear that at war's end an army of unemployed ex-servicemen would, again, march on Washington, as the "Bonus Army" did in 1932.

    Hon. Eric E. Shinseki: Investing In Veterans 2010

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