Word: bill
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed a $456,000,000 War Department appropriation bill...
...Passed a bill to .create a 100,000-acre national park in the Grand Teton Range, Wyoming...
...Passed the House's bill authorizing the settlement of the Greek War loan at $18,125,000 over 62 years, and providing for a new 20-year Greek loan...
...House, passing the Interior Department's appropriation bill, had tagged it with an amendment giving the Secretary of the Interior $250,000 to acquire by condemnation private lands in national parks, and authorizing him to incur additional obligations up to $2,750,000 to match public donations for park improvements. Behind this proposal were two purposes: 1) To save Yosemite National Park from logging on 11,000 acres of private land within its confines; 2) To banish forever unsightly "hot dog" stands from Federal expanses of nature's bosom...
...parks contain a total of 92,000 acres of private land, valued at $5,810,261. Senator Walsh and his colleague, Senator Wheeler, persuaded the Senate to amend the appropriation bill so as to prevent wholesale condemnation of these lands without discrimination between commercial projects and private dwellings. The House resented the change, declined to accept it in conference...