Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Italy and Belgium, with debts to the U. S. of four billions, two billions, half a billion dollars respectively, expressed their intention of funding their debts, the nations with smaller debts-CzechoSlovakia, Jugo-Slavia, Rumania-followed suit...
About 90% of cheap cars and about 50% of high-priced cars are sold on time or deferred payments. Last year, about a billion dollars was employed in this way to finance the purchase from dealers of new cars alone. Since extension of credit to dealers along similar lines is usually a safer operation, probably another billion dollars was thus employed, making two billion dollars used altogether...
...this country, possessing a wholesale value of $2,328,000,000 and a retail value of $2,900,000,000. It is estimated that 75% of this total was financed by time payments. Since "automobile paper" usually matures in a year and is payable in monthly installments, about one billion dollars was thus continuously employed...
...total of the incomes on which taxes were paid was $26,336,337,843 (five billion greater than the previous year, three billion greater than the previous highwater mark...
...surpassing the previous record month of August, 1924, when consumption reached 26,700,000 gallons daily. Some authorities expect to see a daily consumption rate of 29,000,000 gallons set for May, 1925; and, when this summer's season is really reached, a consumption of over a billion gallons a month. If this transpires, stocks in this country would amount to only a little more than a month and a half's supply...