Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...nature of the child is expanding, when its vivid imagination is struggling for expression, the curriculum must give it elbow-room instead of cramping and stunting it within the bounds of the three R's. And certainly, as one educator says, when the American people spend twenty two billions of dollars yearly on luxuries, they should be willing to spend more than a single billion a year in educating the coming strength of the nation...
Foreign exchange rates, after their recent wild fluctuations, proved steady. In the case of German marks, which remained at the same low level for more than a week, this was extraordinary when it is remembered that the Reichsbank successively issued 440 billion and 420 billion new paper marks during the past two weeks. Indeed, almost 1½ trillion marks, or about 50% of the present outstanding issue, were added during February. Under such conditions it is plain that the present efforts of the Government to stabilize German exchange rates are foredoomed to failure...
...billion dollars to be spent this year on their armies by the United States, England, France, Italy...
...military expenditures of the United States, England, France, Italy will be well over a billion dollars this year...
...almost to the frequently predicted price of 30 cents. Although the volume of transactions in stocks decreased, prices were irregularly strong. Bonds in general turned downward under advancing money rates. In Germany the printing presses rendered colorless previous superlatives of financial writers by adding in the single week 450 billion new Reichsbank marks!! Some ingenious mathematician has computed that at this rate 1923 would see outstanding marks break into the quadrillions-an achievement beyond the power of even the Bolsheviki...