Word: million
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government ran goo million dollars into the red in fiscal 1931. When April came this year it was 1,885 new millions in the red for fiscal 1932. When April went it was 448 more new millions behind (mostly Reconstruction Finance loans). All these millions-2,333 of them and more to come before June 30-will be lumped with the Public Debt for future generations...
...Senate Finance Committee was still fumbling fruitlessly with the House's jumbled tax bill. After two weeks fumbling the Senators were dismayed to find their bill still 100 million shy of the mark...
Happy for the first time since his wife's ravishment last September, he declared: "If I had a hundred million dollars I'd still rather be in the Navy...
Rich Mrs. McLean, a mining tycoon's daughter much in the Washington lime light, interested herself in the Lindbergh kidnapping as early as March 4. In 1919 she, too, had lost her firstborn; 9-year-old Vinson, the "Hundred-Million-Dollar Baby" who slept in a crib decorated with gold, gift of Leopold, King of the Belgians. In an unguarded moment her child was ground to death under an automobile's wheels. Mrs. McLean remembered Gaston Means from the good old Harding days when her husband played poker with the Ohio Gang, decided to hire him to trace...
...Barnard College last week Dean Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve appealed for a million dollars in scholarships. Said she: "If students are obliged to drop out of college now, that will mean a shortage of educated citizens in future years...