Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...obscure that he did not know his own surname, set up a shop in Jew Street, Frankfort, two centuries ago, with a rothes schild (red shield) over the door. From that advertisement the House of Rothschild takes its name. Today it stands for a family with, some say, two billion dollars in worldly goods, great banking houses in London, Vienna, Paris and the motto: Servare Modum, Finemque Tenere ("Be moderate, and never lose sight the goal...
...inspired Parisian press that France must drastically increase her armaments. While this propaganda was at its height, he announced to the Chamber that the first important measure to be presented by the Cabinet during the present session (TIME, Nov. 22 et seq.) will be a bill appropriating several billion francs for armaments and fortification of the Franco-German and Franco-Italian frontiers. Marshal Foch, appearing before the Chamber in full uniform, declared: "Germany is disarmed in accordance with the Treaty of Versailles, but France must always be prepared against a nation of 70,000,000 people." Since the Premier ruled...
...death of Mr. Ford. There was the risk that arises in the peculiar genius of Mr. Ford. No one can anticipate his processes."-Waddill Catchings of Goldman Sachs & Co. Said Paul M. Clay, vice president of Moody Investment Service: "I'd rather buy genius than material." The Billion. In 1916, Partner John W. Prentiss of Hornblower & Weeks met Henry Ford in Detroit. Said Mr. Ford: "Oh, you are one of those Wall Street guys." Mr. Prentiss offered him a half billion dollars for his concern. Mr. Ford laughed at him. In 1924 Mr. Prentiss offered Edsel Ford a billion...
...will be turned over $250,000,000 (¼ billion) of government money...
...from the air"; March 10, Professor G. W. Pierce '01, "Electric Oscillations and Radio Communication; with demonstrations"; March 17, Professor G. F. Swain, "The Development of Steel Structures"; March 24, Professor D. H. McLaughlin, "The World Search for Metallic Ores"; March 31. Professor G. M. Fair, "Supplying Half a Billion Gallons a Day of Drinking Water"; April 7, Professor A. E. Wells, "Floating Metals from their Ores"; April 14, Mr. H. M. Turner '06, Lecturer on Water Power Engineering. "Utilization of Water Power...