Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...should come to examine its books, he would find several items marked: "Accounts receivable." By far the largest one, in fact an account receivable larger than any which has ever been known since the Chinese first invented an adding machine, he would find to be in excess of ten billion dollars. As nearly as Secretary Mellon's secretaries can figure, it is $10,556,804,223.40. Accrued interest is almost two billion more, making twelve. This is the amount owed the U.S. by foreign countries for loans and supplies during the War and reconstruction periods. It is divided...
Twelve thousand million is twelve billion. Or, assuming there are 30 million people earning a living in the U. S., it is about $400 per wage earner...
Steel boats-900 bottoms in varying sizes-lie listless in U.S. estuaries. It cost about one billion dollars to make them and it costs the U. S. about $2,700,000 to keep them from one Christmas to the next...
Finance Minister Joseph Caillaux appeared, one bright morning last week, before the Finance Commission of the Chamber of Deputies. To the gentlemen present he said that the "balanced" budget devised by his predecessor M. Clementel was in reality short on the credit side some three and a half billion francs. It appeared that M. Clementel was banking on receipts from Germany which had not been received-a favorite French practice-and had neglected altogether a mere matter on the debit side of some...
...years ago, U.S. cigaret production amounted to about 17 billion annually. For the coming year, production was, last week, estimated to reach 73 billion by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair, who stated that, this year, the tobacco industry would yield more revenue to the Government than all sources of internal revenue prior to 1914, or about $345,000,000. Tobacco taxes amount to $3.12 per capita. The U.S. leads in the production of cigarets, and the Governmental revenue derived from them. It is second only to Belgium in per capita consumption...