Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Exports from the Dutch East Indies, upon last reports, topped one billion and a half gulden ($600,000,000), with imports at over half a billion. To the credit of the Netherlands, all nations participate in this trade without tariff preferences of any kind...
...steel industry was so hard hit that of the 147 furnaces in blast last May only five were in blast this December. Of the adding up of such costs there is no end, but the Wall Street Journal conservatively placed the grand total at "well over a billion dollars...
...President's budget message asked Congress for appropriations of $4,014,571,124.60 to run the Government during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1928. This is only a slight increase over the 1927 figures, but a big leap from 1917 when citizens were first awed by "a billion dollar Congress...
Thus, President Coolidge announced the annual operating expenses of a "four billion dollar business," which now has an estimated Treasury surplus...
Professor Fisher dismisses Wet statisticians, saying that they need training. Then he proceeds to his main argument: Prohibition is working, cannot be thrown aside, can be made to work better. Important points: 1) "A great net good is being realized, including over six billion dollars a year in cold cash values." (Half due to increased earning-power due to sobriety, half due to savings not dissipated in drink...