Word: shellbursts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sweetheart." Democrats responded to last week's Brownell shellburst with a scattershot of contradiction and cries of "politics"; they said that Brownell was merely trying to divert attention from the recent by-election results...
...gripe of their own. Under the present snafued pension laws, noted the Army Times, an Army or Air Force Reserve captain killed in Korea would leave a pension of $331.80 a month to his widow and two children; a Regular Army or National Guard captain killed by the same shellburst would leave his dependents a pension of only $130 a month. Reason: reservists come under the same pension laws as civilian employees of the Government; regulars and guardsmen (as well as all Marine and Navy personnel with more than a month's service) under the much less liberal Veterans...