Word: dollarses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These minor government officials, he told a meeting of the Senate Preparedness subcommittee, can hold up millions of dollars in defense work even after it has been approved by Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
The debt has already pressed to withni less than 750 million dollars of the presetn 275-billion limit.
His 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...
For the first year of the program, the President asked 145 1/2 million dollars for the Office of Education to be used to finance the scholarships and fellowships.
The total is a billion dollars more than Congress voted for foreign aid last year, and 86 millions more than Eisenhower asked then.