Show 1918 and 1943 in 1918 american war expenditures were only IS 18 billion dollars in 1943 they will exceed billion dollars these figures show sharply the difference in cost between the last war and this one there were four liberty and one victory loan drives in the last war with a total goal of less than 19 billion dollars but to finance the present war the people of the uh eg states must raise about 70 billion dollars before ne jie end of this year in that war our task was chiefly to fortify a line of trenches in france in this war we must equip and supply our armies on all the far flung battlefields of the world |