Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with greasy hands, etc., have contributed toward making the life of dollar bills shorter and shorter, until now the bills wear out on an average in less than a year (six to ten months). And the cost of replacement is several cents each-a large item with several billion bills in circulation. Economy demanded action...
...remarked that the franc is now quoted at but three-fourths of its value twelve months ago. During the same period the circulation of paper money has been increased one-fifth, from 40 billion francs to 48 billion...
...once the Fascist Government and its bitterest opponents were in accord. All Italy joined in showering farewells and good wishes upon the twelve Italians who are to negotiate the funding of their country's 50 billion lire ($2,000,000,000,) War debt to the U. S., under the leadership of Count Giuseppe Volpi* di Misurata, Minister of Finance...
...came into prominence again when he wrote to Secretary Daniels saying that the inefficiency of the Navy Department during the War had cost half a million lives and 15 billion dollars...
...really is a world gas forty seven billion times less dense than hydrogen, four thousand times smaller than hydrogen buibles. And its function is the connecting of all sorts of planets and prophets and worlds and worms. Faster than light, it has evaded the searchers of the past and has such evanescent qualities even now that Captain See sees it as a colossal a formidable Nothing...