The G.I. Bill (1944), or the Servicemen’s Readjustment Act, was created to give benefits to the huge numbers of World War II veterans, and avoid economic turmoil in the nation. The bill provided them job counseling, compensation for up to one year for veterans looking for work, low-interest loans to buy a home or to start a business, low-cost mortgages, money tuition, and living expenses to continue their education, among others, and it indeed helped the veterans return to civilian life and improve their quality of life.
Wilma Rudolf was born too early and only weighed two kilograms. She had many illnesses when she was very young, including pneumonia and scarlet fever. She also had polio, which damaged her left leg.
The Texas oil and gas regulator, the Texas Railroad Commission, imposed production limits on producers in the 1930s to try to prop up prices and later was a model for the creation of OPEC. Small oil producers would be exempt, Gallagher said.
