Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the President sent to Congress 3 lbs. 12 oz. of arithmetic, his budget for fiscal 1959, and, as predicted, its spending total set a new peacetime record. The new mark: $73.9 billion, or $2.4 billion more than Ike's 1958 record-setter as it emerged, nicked and scratched, from last spring's clamorous Battle of the Budget. Reason for the $2.4 billion boost: upped defense spending...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 14--The administration asked today for a $5 billion increase in the national debt limit, to 280 billions...
...debt has already pressed to withni less than 750 million dollars of the presetn 275-billion limit...
...plan calls for a billion dollars in federal aid, spread out over four years and including 10,000 scholarships and 1,000 or more graduate fellowships a year, and matching grants to states for the selection, guidance and training of outstanding students. Emphasis would be on the teaching of foreign languages, of science and mathematics...
...total is a billion dollars more than Congress voted for foreign aid last year, and 86 millions more than Eisenhower asked then...