Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that meant everybody. But how much would it cost and who would pay for it? Charlie Brannan wasn't able to say offhand what the cost would be; he thought it would be no more than the cost of the present price-support program (an estimated $860 million this fiscal year, an unpredictable part of which may be recouped in later years by the Government in sales of stored surpluses). But for those who liked their arithmetic plain, the answer seemed too familiar. It looked as if the rabbit might save the consumer some money on his bills...
...Received from its Appropriations Committee the largest military budget in peace time history. The $15.9 billion total was $631 million above what the President asked for, would give the Air Force enough extra funds to provide 58 groups next year instead of the 48 the President had recommended...
Then the cabs started to roll. Denny Lewis, John L.'s little brother and boss of District 50, told the boys to hold fast, that U.M.W.'s $14 million treasury was behind them, but the strikers found out they couldn't get a dime for a cuppa cawfee...
...Dream. Britain had a surplus of ?350 million to show for 1948, but Cripps explained that he could not actually spend this money. It had all been used up, mostly to wipe out some of the huge national debts. The biggest items in the budget were expenditures for defense and cradle-to-the-grave social security. Cripps smashed the rosy Socialist dream that the "welfare state" could be paid for entirely by soaking the rich. The rich were now all but soaked, and it was Britain's plain people who would have to pay for their "free" medical...
...tempest enough. Jimmy admitted that as mayor he had accepted a quarter of a million dollars in gifts from a friend. Chief Investigator Judge Samuel Seabury charged that Jimmy had let corruption rot his administration. (At the start of the investigations, Jimmy was caught in a police raid on a gambling casino, escaped arrest by pulling on a waiter's apron and sitting down to a plate of beans in the kitchen.) In September 1932, with Walker's sudden resignation, hearings on the charges came...