Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...ready to begin work [in his father's office] Monday, Dec. 2." His father's oak-paneled office in the Standard Oil building (No. 26 Broadway) looks down from 20 stories into New York Harbor. The work done there consists chiefly in administering the billion-dollar Rockefeller fortune. Rev. Basil Jellicoe, cousin of Earl Jellicoe (John Rushworth) (Commander of the British grand fleet during the War), applied for a license to open in London a "pub" (public house) called "The Anchor."* "I hope to operate it to show how public houses can and should be run. I think...
...exceeding $50,000. Most of them spend three lavish months a year in Paris, three decorous months at their massive Baroque mansions in Rio de Janeiro, and the remaining half year supervising their estates. Most of these rich men hail from Sāo Paulo, "The State With a Billion Coffee Trees," which produces over half the world's crop. Most of them believe firmly in the efficacy of a combination in restraint of trade to keep prices high. For over two decades they have been perfecting a combination-really a gigantic, cooperative Coffee Trust-which the world...
...stupendous in quantity. The energy falling on a square mile of earth on a bright sunny day with a clear atmosphere is equivalent to two or three million horsepower. According to Dr. Abbott the sun energy reaching the whole earth each day equals the caloric value of 507 billion tons of coal...
...There was a point last week when the stock of General Motors showed a theoretical loss of over a billion and a quarter dollars ($1,228,000,000) from its year's high. But of all the badly hit motors, the worst hit was Chrysler. The stock had a year's high of 135, sold last week down to 52. Before the worst break, Walter P. Chrysler observed that he could see no reason for low prices in automobile stocks, considering current automobile productions and sale. Last week Mr. Chrysler pointed out that nine months' earnings...
Members of the National Association of Life Underwriters, faced by the usual question of how and where to sell, were apparently still groggy from the recent topping of the $100,000,000,000 mark in total life insurance. Titles of addresses were: "The Market for the Second Hundred Billion," "The Conservation of Human Life in the Era of the Second Hundred Billion," "Creating the Second Hundred Billion," "Conserving the First While We Create the Second Hundred Billion," "Selling to Women in the Era of the Second Hundred Billion," "The Second Hundred Billion Salesman: He Faces East...