Word: billion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fair Deal: It would add $20 billion to the U.S. budget. "The Government would tell everyone when to work, what to do and when to sleep . . . It would lead to totalitarianism and a labor-socialist Government...
Foreign Policy: Foreign aid should be sliced from $7 billion to $1 billion or $2 billion a year; Marshall Plan aid must stop in 1952. "Our money would be better spent on our Air Force and air defenses than in building up countries that can't possibly stand against Russia...
Pensions: To pay $100 a month to everybody over 65 would cost $12 billion a year, and raise the question "whether our economy can stand that tremendous burden without deterring industry as well as the worker." He wanted a basic Government study of pension plans...
...suck like clustering leeches on its water lines, were getting perilously close to that unimaginable point at which water would no longer run from millions of kitchen faucets. Its dams stood high and dry above great barren expanses of frozen mud; only 33.4% of the city's 253 billion gallons of stored water was left and the supply was being relentlessly lowered at a rate of some 800 million gallons every...
...gave out reassuring figures showing Italy's rising food production. He hopefully pointed to ECA projects in Italy which are trying to educate the peasants to use their land to better purposes. At La Sila, not far from Melissa, the Italian government, with ECA help, is spending 15 billion lire ($24 million) on a project to improve the land, plans to settle 20,000 peasant families there. They will be instructed in crop rotation and other modern agricultural methods, get new tools and fertilizers. The U.S. has earmarked about $240 million for about 100 similar reclamation projects in Italy...