Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...budget is a really considerable increase over the 1928-29, in fact, half a billion dollars, or roughly equivalent to the sum of all the fortunes which the John D. Rockefellers Sr. & Jr., have given away. And the 1928-29 budget was already a considerable increase over the 1927-28. And, further, these increases occur, in spite of the fact that the War caused public debt has decreased, thereby reducing interest, which is the biggest single annual expense. The conclusion seen in all this by financially minded Republican Senator Reed Smoot is that the U. S. must hereafter expect...
American Tel. and Tel. (billion-dollar corp.): $68,659,240 as against...
...billion dollars was represented by four men, who sailed lightheartedly on the Majestic, intent on grouse-shooting, yachting, sightseeing in the British Isles, Normandy. The four: John Pierpont Morgan; Morgan Partner Charles Steele; Andrew William Mellon; William Larimer Mellon...
...inheritance) tax and to the tax-cutting Revenue Act of 1928. He also said: "In view of the amount of discussion that has taken place as to the accuracy of the Treasury's estimate of income taxes, is is worthy of note that with collections aggregating over two billion dollars they exceeded estimates by the narrow margin of nine million dollars, or error of .42 of one per cent...
...Eckert who had charge of the train which took President Lincoln to Gettysburg in 1863. In his speech, President Coolidge called Abraham Lincoln "one of the greatest men ever in the world." Then he dipped into figures and said that the U. S. had given between six and seven billion dollars, in pensions and gratuities, to service men of the Civil War. For service men of the last War, five billions have been set aside in a decade, he said. "All the countries on earth in all their history, all put together, have not done as much...