Word: bill
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...House of Representatives last week added a few hundred millions of dollars to what President Truman had asked. Then with a heavy sense of urgency, some sane and some not-so-sane oratory, and a frank admission of helplessness, the House approved the record $15.9 billion defense bill...
...measured the distance between the two extremes. He and his committee had talked it over for eleven weeks with the nation's top military people: the past & present Secretaries of Defense, the three Secretaries and their chiefs of staff. The military agreed that if war immediately threatened, the bill should be at least $50 billion, not $15 billion. Said Mahon: "These men did not predict an early outbreak of war, but they agreed that some unpredictable development might throw us suddenly into conflict . . . This, however, was not anticipated . . . No military leader has made the remotest suggestion that we should...
After only two days' debate, the House voted 271-1 for the huge bill. The one dissenting vote was cast by Manhattan's hot-eyed Representative Vito Marcantonio, who talks a lot about U.S. aggression and not at all of Russian aggression...
...only real argument over the record-breaking, $15.9 billion defense budget (see above) was how the money should be divided up among the services. The House bill gave Army, Navy & Air Force just about what the President had asked for-with one significant difference...
...difference, explained Representative George Mahon, reflected the conviction of the committeemen that "the only force under heaven that can now deliver the quick and devastating blow is the United States Air Force." Said Mahon: "We put the emphasis of air power in this bill...