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paid not less than $250 in compensation, or (B) a calendar quarter in which the individual entered military service.

4.  The term "quarter of coverage" shall include both prior and subsequent quarters of coverage.

5.  A pilot will have been "wholly insured" if it appears to the satisfaction of the Board that (A) at the time of his death on or after July 1, 1949, he will have had either (1) a number of quarters of coverage, not less than six, at least equal to one-half of the number of quarters, elapsing in the period after June 30, 1949, or after the quarter in which he attained the age of thirty-two, whichever is later, and up to but excluding the quarter in which he will have attained the age of sixty or died, whichever will first have occurred (excluding from the elapsed quarters any quarter during any part of which a retirement annuity will have been payable to him); and if the number of such elapsed quarters is an odd number, such number shall be reduced by one; or (ii) forty or more quarters of coverage; or (B) his death resulted from an injury or accident incurred in the course of his employment as a pilot after June 30, 1949.  In determining whether an injury or accident was incurred in the course of employment as a pilot, the standards set forth in Section 2 (b) shall govern.

6.  The pilot will have been "temporarily insured" if it appears to the satisfaction of the Board that at the time of his death on or after July 1, 1949, he will have had six or more quarters of coverage, in the period consisting of the quarter in which he died and the twelve quarters immediately preceding such quarter.

7.  A pilot's "average monthly remunerations" shall mean the quotient obtained by dividing the sum of the compensation paid to him after June 30, 1949, and before the quarter in which he will have died, eliminating from the compensation for any single calendar year the compensation in excess of $9,000, by three times the number of subsequent quarters of coverage and before the quarter in which he will have died, excluding any quarter prior to the quarter in which he attained the age of twenty-seven, during which he was paid less than $250 in compensation, and any quarter during any part of which a retirement annuity will have been payable to him:  PROVIDED, HOWEVER, That in the case of any pilot who dies before January 1, 1963, the "average monthly remuneration" shall be the average calculated in accordance with this paragraph, or the monthly compensation, not in excess of $750, applicable in accordance with section 3 (c) to service prior to July 1, 1949, which is the larger.

8.  The term "insurance amount" shall mean the sum of (A) forty per centum of his average monthly remuneration, up to and including $50; plus (B) ten per centum of such average monthly remuneration exceeding $50; plus (C) one per centum of the sum of (A) plus (B). multiplied by the number of years after 1948 in each of which compensation paid to him will have been equal to $750 or more:  PROVIDED, That for the purposes of this paragraph,