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Term of Congress most costly ever in peacetime record
The71st Congress ends with a peacetime spending record totaling about ten billion dollars for government uses in the current and next fiscal years. Major outlays cover emergency construction, drought relief, veterans programs, and debt service, with the war years’ outlays cited for comparison.
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Washington
Mar
Congress
Seventy-First National Assembly
Veteras
Treasury-Post Office’ Department
Veterans Administration
Farm Board
War Department
Mississippi
Agriculture
State, Justice, Labor and Commerce Departments
Interior Department
District of Columbia