Word: bille
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accompanying bill, $1,093,450,000 was allotted to the pact countries-$938,450,000 in military equipment and technical assistance (half to come from surplus stocks) and $155 million in materials and machinery to help Europe's own arms production. Another $300,580,000 would go for military help to Greece, Turkey, Korea, Persia and the Philippines...
Cardinal Spellman's remarks had been aimed not only at Mrs. Roosevelt-a bystander, if not exactly an innocent one-but at a bill introduced in the House of Representatives by North Carolina's stubbornly conservative Graham Barden, whom Spellman had recently characterized as a "new apostle of bigotry...
...Barden bill provided $300 million in federal funds for U.S. education, but unlike the education bill already passed by the Senate, specifically excluded private and parochial schools from its benefits. The Barden bill was limited strictly to such direct education aid as textbooks, teachers' salaries, equipment. It did not provide for anyone the milk, bus transportation and medicine which Cardinal
...onetime newsboy, dark-haired Bill Richards hustled at odd jobs to pay his way through Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With a degree in chemical engineering, he landed a research job in the Studebaker plant at South Bend, Ind., but was soon booted out because he spent all his time fooling around with racing cars. After the Indianapolis crackup, he worked as a truck farmer's assistant, spotted the scraggly Cap Cod patch at Sandwich and bought it cheap...
Last week beefy Bill Richards stood in the midst of his 1,000,000 heads of iceberg lettuce (he will plant his broccoli this week), watched the slowly circling sprays of water soak the light brown soil. He was sorry, he said, that other New England farmers were having it so bad, but he was certainly grateful for that smashup on the race track...