Word: billion
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Couldn't you make it a billion?" said our hero...
...have a billion reindeer just as easily as a couple of million," said Mr. Lenine, "and we'll throw in all the ice and Eskimos that go with the reindeer...
...hero thought that 400,000 square miles would do nicely. Quicker than thought he also obtained from Mr. Lenine ten billion tons of coal, five billion tons of platinum, eight billion tons of furs--the nice woolly kind, twenty billion tons of petroleum, et cetera, et cetera...
...Congress adopts the recommendations drafted by the Treasury officials and placed before Secretary Houston for his approval, the country will face a continuation of the annual tax bill of four billion dollars...
...commonly thought that the election results show that the people are unanimous that our national expenses should be reduced. But the same people also seem ignorantly to expect that taxation can be immediately reduced in proportion. Yet, when we know that about eight billion dollars in Victory notes, war savings stamps, and treasury certificates of indebtedness will fall due in the next three years, it is plain that we must continue a policy of heavy taxation. Besides our regular national expenses, then, we must meet this added war burden...