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" Hermiston , which ballooned from a town of 700 to 11,000 in just a few months , had a significant USO presence . Well , I doubted that would happen to me , because I 'd heard from Six-Fingers Bourdett that General Santa Luna had dropped all his political ballast and ballooned himself into exile . She comfort-ate , ballooned to 15lbs and could no longer fit through her catflap . As another indicator of the growth in spending , the federal budget ballooned from nine billion dollars in 1939 to 98 billion dollars in 1945 . Costs , originally estimated at $ 554 million , have ballooned to $ 1 billion .