Word: billion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...billion for veterans (pensions, hospitals, G.I. Bill of Rights...
...billion interest on the $251 billion national debt. $2.4 billion for social welfare (old age assistance, education, public health...
...House has passed eleven regular appropriation bills totaling $32.8 billion, has snipped $1.8 billion out of the President's budget. But this does not include some $4 billion more of House-approved contract authorizations ($500 million more than the President requested), which permits obligations to be incurred against appropriations to be made later. The Senate has passed six of the House bills, has already restored $408 million of the House cuts...
Beyond the budget (except for some token down payments) are items to get Harry Truman's welfare-state program under way and also for the full cost of such projects as the St. Lawrence Seaway ($600 million to $1 billion). Items...
...billion a year for the Brannon farm program (a hazy estimate by supporters; opponents think it would probably cost a great deal more...