Word: amounts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Treasury McAdoo has asked that Congress appropriate immediately $3,502,- 517,000 to finance the war for one year. A bond issue to be absorbed by the Federal Reserve Banks, and increased taxation on estates, incomes, whisky, beer and tobacco, will be resorted to to raise the huge amount. There is little doubt but that the Government will have no difficulty in raising the requisite funds...
...strongly urged that the men in the Reserve Corps be kept in College as long as possible. While the final decision rests with the War Department and the University authorities, the probability that College work will not be interrupted is strong enough to justify the undergraduates' spending the full amount of time on their regular studies...
...same, and all are different from the American rifle. Moreover, it is probable that these plants could not be in working order inside of a year. For the army planned, a billion rounds of small arms ammunition will be needed at the start, and a reserve of double that amount constantly maintained, although there are only 350,000,000 rounds available and the capacity of the one Government manufactory is only 80,000,000 a year...
...complete expenses, which will amount to $300, will be for transportation, purchase of a uniform in Paris, and personal incidentals, board and lodging being supplied to each driver while in Europe. Financial aid for a limited number of deserving men may be secured for transportation...
...from these two statements the obvious course of action for this country. Yet many of us feel that a mere declaration of war is all that is necessary to regain our national honor and make us a glorious ally of the Entente. Naturally, this step will give a certain amount of moral support to the Allies, but real war is not composed of moral support alone. The man who stands with arms folded while his brother is struggling to throw off a madman might as well not exist. He may have the best wishes in the world for his brother...