Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...been supported very largely by manufacturers who have been many times paid for their financial backing by tariff legislation which has enabled them to charge exorbitant prices to the American consumer, particularly the American farmer. The Fordney tariff Act has increased prices to the American consumer about 4 billion dollars a year--at least 87 per cent or which goes to American manufacturers in higher prices. The Republican party has deliberately sacrificed the American farmer to the manufacturer. The farmer is compelled to buy on this protected market while he is obliged by the nature of his crops to sell...
Ordinarily Standard Oil of Indiana sells about one-fifth of the gasoline marketed in the U. S. Last year its domestic sales are computed to have exceeded a billion gallons, plus export sales of about 100 million gallons. This was accomplished in spite of the "price wars" last Spring and Summer, and the threatened competition by Gov. McMaster of South Dakota...
During 1923 Steel's gross business expended almost half a billion dollars to a total of $1,571,414,000. Net income was $128,176,519, compared with $58,840,801 the year before. After interest, charges and preferred dividends, $83,487,387 (or $16.42 a share) was available for dividends in the common stock, compared with $14,433,778 last year, when the payment of common dividends was made out of surplus. In 1923, compared with the deficit of $10,981,347 of the preceding year, an addition of $54,259,993 to surplus was thus made possible...
...Bill gives the Government power to issue decrees: 1) cutting departmental expenses; 2) reorganizing the public services; 3) abolishing the parochial administration of justice and jails; 4) regrouping State and Departmental functions so as to effect an estimated economy of a billion francs in four months...
...Lieutenant Colonel Phillippe Bunau-Varilla, engineer, editor, diplomat soldier of fortune, veteran of the World War, in which he lost a leg, and coworker of Ferdinand de Lesseps who almost built the Panama Canal French private companies, has come back to his first love. He wants to substitute a billion-dollar, sea-level strait, 1,000 feet wide at the bottom for the present lock canal built by the U. S. Government under President Roosevelt...