Word: billion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vote of 209 to 151, the House agreed. Greece and Turkey would still get $211 millions; untouched also was the $27 million for Iran, Korea and the Philippines. But of the $1.2 billion ticketed for the Atlantic Treaty nations the House trimmed nearly half. Surplus tanks, artillery and ammunition would account for much of what was left...
Chances were that the Senate would put back some, if not all, of the cuts. The Republican compromise worked out by Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg and New York's John Foster Dulles would trim the funds for Europe to an even billion. "But," said Dulles, "there will be no disposition to be foolish and bullheaded about it. That was one of the reasons why the Administration's bill got such bad treatment...
...been years since appropriations had been in such a sorry shape. Though the House had whipped through all its major money bills by mid-April, the Senate had dawdled for months, still had $29 billion-almost three-fourths of the budget-to approve. Twice the House had extended the time limit. Last week, after venting its spleen, the House voted another extension rather than risk the alternative : payless paydays for some 2½ million federal employees...
...worse position than at any time since war's end, and by last week every plain newspaper reader in Britain and the U.S. knew it, and knew more details than he had ever known before. Britain's dollar reserves had dropped almost to $1.2 billion, dangerously below the safe minimum of $2 billion. In short, Britain was teetering on the verge of bankruptcy; since she acts as banker for the whole sterling area, her plight also meant the danger of panic and dire economic distress from Manchester to Melbourne...
...know the pleasures of Coca-Cola, they are awe-stricken by the prospect. It has even been known to move an executive vice president to prayer. That happened to James F. Curtis, who said, before a bottlers' convention: "May Providence give us the . . . faith ... to serve those two billion customers who are only waiting for us to bring our product to them...