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After one civic group in Indiana began to publish Klan membership lists, there was a rapid decline in the number of Klan members. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) launched public education campaigns in order to inform people about Klan activities and lobbied in Congress against Klan abuses.
The cost to procure each B-2 was US$737 million in 1997 dollars (equivalent to US$1300 million in 2021 [43]), based only on a fleet cost of US$15.48 billion. [5] The procurement cost per aircraft, as detailed in GAO reports, which include spare parts and software support, was $929 million per aircraft in 1997 dollars. [5]
In August 1973, Congress mandated that the Navy pursue a lower-cost alternative to the F-14. Grumman proposed a stripped F-14 designated the F-14X, while McDonnell Douglas proposed a naval variant of the F-15, but both were nearly as expensive as the F-14. [3]
Military budget of China, USSR, Russia and US in constant 2021 US$ billions Military spending as a percent of federal government revenue. The military budget of the United States is the largest portion of the discretionary federal budget allocated to the Department of Defense (DoD), or more broadly, the portion of the budget that goes to any military-related expenditures.
The 2020 United States presidential election was the 59th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 2020. [a] The Democratic ticket of former vice president Joe Biden and the junior U.S. senator from California Kamala Harris defeated the incumbent Republican president, Donald Trump, and vice president, Mike Pence. [9]
Military payment certificates, or MPC, was a form of currency used to pay United States (US) military personnel in certain foreign countries in the mid and late twentieth century. They were used in one area or another from a few months after the end of World War II until a few months after the end of U.S. participation in the Vietnam War ...
Kamala Devi Harris (/ ˈ k ɑː m ə l ə ˈ d eɪ v i / ⓘ KAH-mə-lə DAY-vee; [2] born October 20, 1964) is an American politician and attorney who is the 49th and current vice president of the United States since 2021, serving with President Joe Biden.
The original programme cost estimate was £70 million in 1962, [65] (£1.68 billion in 2023). [66] After cost overruns and delays the programme eventually cost between £1.5 and £2.1 billion in 1976, [67] (£11.4 billion-16 billion in 2023). [66] This cost was the main reason the production run was much smaller than expected. [68]