Word: billions
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...like the proverbial drunken sailor. Nor is New York alone in its extravagance. Our Congress is appropriating millions of the public's money with scarcely an inquiry to find out how those millions are to be spent. The interest on the war-debt is going to amount to a billion dollars a year. This does not bother Congress. Like New York, it cares not how the millions are spent on pork, as long as they can watch a penny here and there to prove to the public how economical they are. Until an adequate budget system is evolved to take...
...drive for four and a half billion dollars starts today. Of this sum, the University is called on to furnish $30,000, at least. That we can and will supply this within three weeks is not to be doubted, but it is essential to begin now. Too often action is postponed until only a few days remain, with the result that committees are overworked while some subscriptions run the risk of being neglected. Buy today, either from a solicitor or from the committee headquarters in the CRIMSON Building. If you can't buy just now, make arrangements to secure...
...Perhaps no one in the country knows the results of over confidence better than the college man. Many and many and athletic victory has been turned into defeat from this cause. It is therefore vital to remember that even in spite of the reduction in the amount from six billion dollars to four and one-half billion dollars this loan still remains the second largest amount ever called for by the United States Government. Plenty of hard work is necessary to make a success of this loan, but that it can be done we have not the slightest doubt...
...thousands of yesterday have become the billions of today as America enters the second year of her financial support of the war. Large figures no longer attract attention and have become the rule rather than the exception. Yet anyone who attempts a mental picture of a billion dollars or a million men is astounded by their magnitude. We may take pride in the greatness of our resources, but we may wonder at the strain they are now standing...
Shall we hesitate over a mere three billion dollar loan, one-thirteenth of our annual income...