Word: 51billion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House unanimously passed (352-0) a $43 billion Army appropriation bill for 1943, largest appropriation measure on record in any country. The largest single item ($11 billion) was for the Air Forces. The bill brought total U.S. military appropriations for World War II to a colossal $205 billion-$51billion more than the Government spent for all activities (including five other wars) from 1789 to 1940. Said New York's Republican Representative John Taber, who in other days was wont to stiffen with rage at the idea of even a million-dollar appropriation* : "Perhaps it will bankrupt us, but even...
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