Sentence:  The present Federal program of vocational education began in 1917 with the passage of the Smith-Hughes Act , which provided a continuing annual appropriation of $ 7 <WSD>million</WSD> to support , on a matching basis , state administered programs of vocational education in agriculture , trades , industrial skills and home economics . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (in Roman numerals, M written with a macron over it) denoting a quantity consisting of 1,000,000 items or units