Word: million
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood always hopes for-but has never made-a picture that wows each & every one of its 90 million potential customers...
...hours before the Senate was to learn that McMahon's prophecy was cold, disturbing fact, the fate of the arms plan was still far from certain. Sober, economy-minded Walter George of Georgia, trying to cut the $1 billion appropriation for the Atlantic pact nations by $500 million, argued doggedly that the U.S. could not run the risk of bleeding itself white for Europe. "To the extent that we weaken America," he declared, "to the extent that we weaken the strength of our arm, we undoubtedly cut the life out of the whole North Atlantic community...
...Wayne Morse, his back severely wrenched in a racing accident, was carried into the Capitol on a stretcher and appeared in the Senate in a wheelchair to cast his vote for the bill. The Administration was rallying every last supporter. In the end, George's proposed $500 million cut was defeated by a comfortable margin...
...Tools. Then, still 18 hours before news of Russia's advance to the atomic bomb, the Senate approved the arms bill, 55 to 24, allocating $1 billion for eight Atlantic pact partners in Europe, $211 million for Greek-Turkish aid, $27 million for Korea, Iran and the Philippines. Also approved: $75 million for aid to China, to be spent at the discretion of the President...
With such speedy access to the city as the new span provides, the engineers estimate that nearly two million more vehicles will come into the city in 1950 and that, within 25 years, the figure will go over the 18 million mark. When the old drawbridge is torn out, the Mystic River channel can be widened and any seagoing vessel whose superstructure doesn't stand over 135 feet can go up the river to Everett and Chelsea...