"a billion here, a billion there" (UNCLASSIFIED)

[sagehen]

on 9/12/08 12:49 PM, Mullins, Bill AMRDEC at Bill.Mullins at US.ARMY.MIL wrote:

> Classification:  UNCLASSIFIED
> Caveats: NONE
>
> "Trillion On Deck"
> Date: 1917-06-23; Paper: Idaho Statesman, published as: The Idaho Daily
> Statesman p 4 col 1
> "Congress never appropriates less than a thousand of them [millions]
> for any military activity, a billion here, a billion there until
> billions are getting common."
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Was it Everett Dirksen (sp?) who said "...a Million here, a Million there:
pretty soon you're (we're) talking big money."?
AM

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