The day after President Roosevelt sent his budget message to Congress, citizens thumbed through the letter "S" in dictionaries looking for words to express emotion. Republicans magnified their feelings with "shocking." Democrats minimized theirs with "startling." Some liked "stupendous," others preferred "shudder," but most overworked word in the U. S. vocabulary was "staggering." The President planned to have the U. S. spend $31,179 a minuteevery minute night and daytill June 30. He planned to have the U. S. borrow $6,000,000,000 before June 30an amount slightly larger than the total amount of...
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