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Show Vet insurance Dividends To Be Out In January . Checks in payment of the special spe-cial National Service Life Insurance In-surance dividend will not be j mailed before January, 1950. the Veterans Administration said ! today. Harold W. Breining. assistant 'administrator for insurance, said ! reports that checks might start I going out befo e Christmas were j "absolutely without foundation." I "The real fact is," Breining 'said, "that we are even working work-ing overtime in an effort to get I these dividend checks to the vet-I vet-I erans entitled to them according i to our present schedule which j calls for the first checks to b Gisnatched sometime around the 1 middle of Janunry." An estimated 16 million veterans vet-erans and servicemen are entitled en-titled to a sha e of the $2.b . billion dividend fund. Once payments pay-ments start, checks are expected to go into the mails at the rate of 200,000 per working day. More than 12 million applica-t;ons applica-t;ons for dividend payments have been received in Washing-I Washing-I ton since anplication forms were i made available last August 29. About 34 million man-days of labor were lost through strikes in 1948. A single oyster produces between be-tween 55 million and 114 million eggs in a lifetime. |