Word: billings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Veterans Administration last week added up its postwar payments to 15,200,000 World War II veterans, their heirs and dependents. The total: a skyscraping $20,975,947,214. Biggest expenditure-more than $7 billion-went for education under the G.I. bill. Pensions or compensation cost $4,502,364,093; disability and death claims, $3,694,661,437; and the "52-20" program of unemployment benefits...
...cancer." He ran from the room shouting to his father: "We are going to have 700 cars Sunday. Money will come in, eh, Papa?" Papa pulled the boy back into the room. Réal then told the woman to pray. As she left, she put a $10 bill in the center of the table...
...Cleveland, there was a wake. After 113 days of squatting on a platform above his confectionery store "until the Indians got back in first place," Exhibitionist Charley Lupica (TIME, Aug. 19) was invited down last week by Bill Veeck, exhibitionist president of the Cleveland baseball club. In the mathematics of the 1949 pennant race, the Indians, World Series winners a year ago, were dead. To mourn the sad occasion, Veeck, crowned with a silk hat but still without a tie (he never wears one), drove a horse-drawn hearse into Municipal Stadium with all the Indians trailing along as pallbearers...
...Babe Ruth? Against Boston's right-handed Bill Voiselle, Right-hander Kiner picked a fat curve and put his 195 Ibs. into an easy, carefully grooved swing. The ball cleared the left-field fence for home run No. 51. Three innings later, he put No. 52 in the same place. To Pittsburghers, who head for the exits the moment Kiner has taken his last turn at bat, even Babe Ruth's record mark of 60 (in 1927) still seemed within Kiner's reach...
...developed a new twist for TV, which Sports Director Bill Stern calls "regional" telecasting. It is also tailored to local loyalties: last week NBC telecast Army-Davidson from New York to Richmond, while New England got the Yale-Connecticut game...