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Show STUPENDOUS SUM IN U. S. WAR OPERATIONS WASHINGTON Jan 16. Government Govern-ment financial operations since the country s entrance into the war involved in-volved more than S2"0.000 000.000. according to figures compiled Sunday by the treasury on the basl.s of dally statements from April tj, 1917. to December De-cember 31, 1 91' 1 This stupendous sum consisted of . , eeipi -. I. hi h ordinr.r; and public debt of more than J9.00O.00U.O0 balanced against disbursements of both classes of a like total. Starting Start-ing in the eve of the war, April 5, 1'jlT. with a net balance in the general gen-eral fund of $92.oon,ouo receipts, ex-1 elusive of principal of uubllc debt, I from April 6, 1917, to December 13 1921, totaled $3-1. 018. 000 000. whllo public debt receipts amounted to $75,-i 043 OdO.OOO. |