Word: billings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...speeches began, a wonderful, if temporary, surge of good feeling united the thousands in the hall. Bill Boyle almost wept as he stood listening to the roar of the crowd's applause. Vice President Alben Barkley was inspired to a stirring attack on Republicans. Challenging the G.O.P.'s new campaign slogan, he cried: "Will those people who see in every tree frog a roaring lion, and in every angleworm a spreading adder, please rise and tell us what is statism...
...sudden burst of speed last week, the U.S. Congress added up the major foreign-aid bills for the current fiscal year, earmarked more than $7 billion for the nation's postwar allies and the occupied countries. The House and Senate quickly agreed on a bill authorizing $1,314,010,000 in military aid for European partners in the Atlantic defense pact (see below...
...million House bill, increasing pay rates for men & officers of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Guard, Air National Guard, Coast & Geodetic Survey and Public Health Service...
...executives of a single private corporation in this country [i.e., the E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co., which pays its top officers an average of $213,715 each] are paid more than the aggregate salary now paid to all the 250 or so federal officers to whom this bill applies...
...rushed, muttering, to Reuben's, an all-night restaurant which for reasons best known to its management, keeps such an example of the toy stuffer's art on sale. He bought two large specimens for $25 apiece. Bogart welcomed them jovially, handed one to Manhattan Wholesale Grocer Bill Seeman, his drinking companion, and with the other under his arm, departed for the much more elegant El Morocco. All in all, it was a small thing. A nothing. It was not as though he had settled down amid El Morocco's zebra-striped decor with a live giraffe...