Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Versailles, 1919: Germans offered to pay 100 billion gold marks; Allies wanted 375 billion...
...Boulogne, June, 1920: Allies asked 269 billion gold marks...
...Paris, January, 1921: German reparation debt reduced to 226 billion gold marks plus 10% on German exports...
...budget showing a deficit of $12,400 billion marks was adopted by the Reichstag. This is terrible on the face of it, but in real money it is only about 12 million dollars...
...have run very deep. Amid the roar of national and international questions, of taxes and tariffs, the work of the administration, unadvertised and almost unnoticed, has been hard and heroic to keep life in the starving, and its record of having distributed during the two-year tenure over a billion and a half of adult and child rations speaks for itself. But apart from supplying food, it has provided medicine and surgery in just as notable proportions. Fifteen thousand hospitals have been kept in equipment, and the doctors of the unit are leaving behind them enough supplies to last...