Word: moneys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress for once had given Harry Truman more money than he had asked. Inside the $15.5 billion defense bill which he signed last week was an extra item of $615 million to be spent in starting to build a 58-group Air Force. On this subject Harry Truman had been sharp and clear: he wanted the Air Force held to 48 groups. So with a brisk bit of juggling, he took what he wanted of the bill and left the rest...
...first let us consider this Bing Crosby," the ministry's announcer began. "He is a typical example of a man who sacrifices his art to get money. He sings in a way so sentimentally sweet it makes you sick...
Then Churchill got in his innings with a blistering 40-minute attack in which he said: "There was the old Gladstonian expression, 'Let the money fructify in the pockets of the people.' That is regarded [by the government] as a monstrous device of a decadent capitalist system...
...Field I, had left him a cool $1,000,000. Peter's youth was divided between the playing fields of Eton and happy vacations in the Swiss Alps. As a young man he had his pick of Mayfair's debutantes for company, and plenty of time and money to hunt and shoot and race...
...because enrollments are falling. In Harvard's case the enrollment dip simply reflects the University's decision two years ago to slash war-swollen figures. Many other colleges, however, would like to continue with a bigger students body but can't because fewer and fewer men today have enough money to pay the expensive bill...