Establishing Parity Between Peacetime and Wartime Service-connected Compensation Rates: Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-second Congress, First Session, on H.R. 303 [and Others] Bills which Would Increase the Peacetime Rate for Service-connected Disabilities to the Full Wartime Rate. April 17, 1951

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Страница 16 - II or of service on or after June 27, 1950, and prior to such date as shall thereafter be determined by Presidential proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress, who is entitled to compensation under the laws administered by the Veterans...
Страница 19 - I of this regulation, if the disability resulted from an injury or disease received in line of duty (1) as a direct result of armed conflict, or (2) while engaged in extra-hazardous service, including such service under conditions simulating war, or (3) while the United States is engaged in war.
Страница 39 - ... committee will come to order. We have the privilege and pleasure of having Mr. Paul Porter, Administrator, Office of Price Administration, as our witness this morning. Mr. Porter. STATEMENT OF PAUL PORTER, ADMINISTRATOR, OFFICE OF PRICE ADMINISTRATION, WASHINGTON, DC— Recalled Mr. PORTER. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I do not have a prepared statement this morning, but I do have a few comments that I would like to make in the nature of a summary of some of the testimony that has gone on before....
Страница 18 - ... (n) Anatomical loss of 2 extremities so near shoulder or hip as to prevent use of prosthetic appliance, or suffered anatomical loss of both eyes, monthly...
Страница 16 - June 27, 1950, and prior to such date as shall thereafter be determined by Presidential proclamation or concurrent resolution of the Congress, shall, subject to other provisions of law and Veterans Regulations administered by the Veterans...
Страница 16 - June 27, 1950, certain benefits provided by law for veterans of World War II Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That paragraph I (a), part. I, Veterans Regulation Numbered 1 (a), as amended, is hereby amended by inserting after the phrase "during the dates specified...
Страница 18 - ... (m) If the disabled person, as the result of service-incurred disability, has suffered the anatomical loss or loss of use of two extremities at a level, or with complications, preventing natural elbow or knee action with prosthesis...
Страница 22 - The expanding Army and Navy in 1940-41, from the standpoint of their training and operations, are to be regarded as under emergency conditions in relation to national defense in the face of threatened war.
Страница 22 - The general test with regard to campaigns or expeditions is: Did the injury or disease arise directly out of the performance, under orders, of military or naval duty peculiar to or advancing the purpose thereof and under circumstances more dangerous than in normal peacetime service? If so, the circumstances are, as a rule, extra hazardous. Attention is invited to R & P A-36-54 inclusive, relating to campaigns and expeditions, etc.1 (3) The act specifies "extra hazardous service, including such service...
Страница 21 - Individual actions incident to performance of service duties of exceptional risk or danger, as extinguishing a serious fire or conflagration, serving where explosives are stored in quantity, rescues at sea, from drowning, or from burning buildings, may be considered extra hazardous, if the element of risk or danger above and beyond the routine of the service is clearly apparent. It is particularly to be noted that accidents with firearms or other instrumentalities of war on land or sea, unless directly...

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