Service-connected Compensation: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Compensation and Pension of the Committee on Veterans' Affairs, House of Representatives, Eighty-fifth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 65 [and Other] Bills on Service-connected Compensation and Burial Benefits. June 16 and 17, 1958

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Page 3909 - The ratings shall be based, as far as practicable, upon the average impairments of earning capacity resulting from such injuries in civil occupations...
Page 3800 - ... (1) If the disabled person, as the result of service-incurred disability, has suffered the anatomical loss, or loss of use of both hands, or...
Page 3876 - ... suffered blindness in both eyes, rendering him so helpless as to be in need of regular aid and attendance, the monthly pension shall be $211.50.
Page 3913 - July 2, 1921, is discharged or resigns shall be conclusively held and taken to have been in sound condition when examined, accepted, and enrolled for service...
Page 3792 - For the purposes of this subdivision the word "veteran" shall mean a person who has served in the active military or naval service of the United States at any time on or after September 16, 1940, and prior to July 26, 1947, or on or after June 27, 1950, and prior to February 1, 1955...
Page 3776 - ... 59 Stat. 304 (5 USC 945), to issue, subject to the approval of the President, regulations necessary for the administration of certain provisions of that Act insofar as the Act affects officers and employees in or under the executive branch of the Government. (2) The authority vested in the President by Section 203 (f) of the Annual and Sick Leave Act of 1951, 65 Stat. 680 (5 USC 2062 (f) ), to prescribe regulations governing the granting of leave of absence as described in that Section. (3) Except...
Page 3786 - Be it enacted by the Senate and Souse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That this Act may be cited as the "Arms Control and Disarmament Act Amendments in 1975".
Page 3796 - Regulation No. 1 (a) provides, "That for the purposes of paragraph I (a) hereof a chronic disease becoming manifest to a degree of 10 percent or more within 1 year from the date of separation from active service...
Page 3780 - SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on the first day of the second calendar month next succeeding its enactment. [HR...
Page 3787 - ... (5) Hansen's disease developing a 10 per centum degree of disability or more within three years from the date of separation from such service; shall be considered to have been Incurred in or aggravated by such service, notwithstanding there is no record of evidence of such disease during the period of service.

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