Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...coast and producing 500 million loaves a year. In Washington, where the Federal Trade Commission has been eyeing the bread industry in response to congressional outcries, inquiry was reported "in abeyance," which meant that nothing damaging had been discovered to show a "bread trust." This combine's half billion loaves would constitute only some 10% of U. S. bread consumption, and no monopoly...
...Lawyers Felix T. Smith and Renato Capocelli, and W. F. Hillman, last week traveled from San Francisco to Delaware, laid down $75,100 as an incorporation tax, and came away with a new billion-and-a-half charter for the Standard Oil Co. of California. This re-formation of the California company is considered only the prelude to enormous Coast oil activities. On Feb. 26 the stockholders of the Pacific Oil Co. will meet to consider proposals on reducing that concern's capital stock of $92,000,000 to $1,750,000. The directors will also suggest a merger...
...Interior, and Dr. Frank W. Ballou of the National Education Association. What called this formidable-sounding organization into existence? Simply this: U. S. taxpayers, while believing in their public schools, are not altogether satisfied that education is run in a businesslike way. The nation's yearly two-billion-dollar public education bill is twice that of 1920, four times that...
...income of the Italians is less than one-sixth of the income of the average American; whereas the average American spends $50 to $55 a year for meat, the average Italian spends lesa than $46 a year for all his food. The total national income of Italy is 100 billion lire, which amounts to about 26ining 9e Ways and Means Committee because he was not elected to the 67th Congress (1921-23). Mr. Rainey has not liked the first two important measures which came out of the Ways and Means Committee this yearOPEN_P]They produced severally a number...
...three-fourths of our present public debt; and if we were to pay this War debt on the same scale as in the Italian agreement, after five years we would be paying an annuity of over $400,000,000, after 30 years to over a billion dollars, and by the end of the period considerably over two billions a year...