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Show Reservoir Of Trained Veterans To Be Useful In Case Off War, VA Says America now has a good-sized reservoir of veterans trained under un-der the GI Bill in skills and trades that would be essential in time of war, Veterans Administration Ad-ministration has disclosed. A V-A survey provides some indication of the size and scope of this army of trained ex-servicemen. The survey covered only veterans vet-erans actually in classrooms and at training benches. For every man then in training, V-A estimated esti-mated at least two others had either completed or discoutin-ucd discoutin-ucd their GI Bill courses. At the time of the survey the end of October, 1949 veteran vet-eran enrollees included 735,000 in colleges and universities; 808,000 in trade, industrial and other schools below the college level; 304,000 in institutional on-farm training, and 285,000 in on-the-job training courses. Thirteen per cent of the college col-lege students, or more than 100,000 were studying engineering. engineer-ing. Most popular courses were general engineering, electrical (including radio and television) and mechanical in that order. Another six per cent, or nearly near-ly 46,000 were enrolled in medical med-ical and related courses. And five per cent, or 42,000, were taking courses in the physical and natural sciences, such as physics, meterology, geology and the like. |
