Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...nation got a sharp warning. A joint congressional committee of tax experts estimated last week that at the present rate of income and outgo, the U.S. would be in the red another $3 billion by next year. Such big round numbers had lost their ability to shock, the government was already $252 billion in debt. But one fact could be understood. If even in prosperous peacetime a government did not keep out of the red, then it was playing with economic dynamite...
...available to pay some 15,000 federal employees (including himself) until the end of the fiscal year. In a scorching message, he blasted a clause in it which had delayed his signature. The clause, put in at the insistence of California's Senator Sheridan Downey, friend of the big West Coast landholders, denied Reclamation Commissioner Mike Straus and California's Regional Director Richard Boke their...
...races in which the Crimson was not the runner-up, as luck would have it, was the big one--the New England Championships May 7 and 8 which also served as eliminations for the National Championships. In this regatta the Harvard team of Putnam and Scullay dropped to third place, two points behind Brown which nosed out Harvard for the honor of following Yale. Only two boats from New England can race in the nationals...
...appropriating the money, the Council allowed the NSA a loophole. If they sell more than 1000 purchase cards next year, the Council, which is at present getting a big slice of the card earnings, will turn over the first $100 to the men who paid their own board at the convention...
...expenses at Harvard run to about $1200 each year. Other expenses, besides the big annual trip, include trips to smaller regional conferences of various sorts, printing of information, and mailing...