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Show WAR EXPENDITURES War expenditures to date total $78,212,000,000. This ' is the total that has been authorized by the United States and it includes $74,440,000,000 authorized expenditures expen-ditures for war purposes and $3,772,000,000 for foreign transactions trans-actions in the United States. According Ac-cording to OPM's Bureau of Research Re-search and Statistics, over $47,-000,000,000 $47,-000,000,000 has been let in contracts con-tracts and over $13,000,000,000 have already been paid out. o One trouble with a democracy is that too many citizens suffer from mental paralysis. |