Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

there is hereby allocated from the said appropriation to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration the sum of $500,000,000

Executive Order 6603—Allocation of Funds to the Federal Emergency Relief Administration

02/14/1934

More Franklin Roosevelt Quotes

Well, there are five hundred and ten thousand young men today in C.C.C. camps in every State of the Union.

This highway will last, not for generations, but for centuries to come.

We have over five hundred thousand now.

And so with the larger lumbering operations.