FISCAL: Year's End
Peak of the national debt at the close of World War I was $26½ billion. This week, at the end of the Government's fiscal year, seven months after Pearl Harbor, the debt stood at $76 billion, a rise of $27 billion since last year. Government expenditures in June were an estimated $4½ billion, were on the way up to the stars. No one said "Wheel"
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