Word: billion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consideration before the House was a $2.1 billion housing bill authored by Alabama's progressive Congressman Albert Rains (the Senate had already passed a $2.6 billion housing bill...
Last week the President also: if Signed a supplemental appropriations bill providing an additional $2.8 billion for fiscal 1959. A key item: $150 million for the foreign-aid program's Development Loan Fund...
...devaluation of the franc, exports are now almost high enough to match imports, producing a tidy surplus in the balance of payments. Industrial production is on the way up again. The government has cut its heavy budget deficit (caused largely by the Algerian war) to half the 1,200 billion francs predicted earlier. The government had expected prices to rise 7% after devaluation, but they are up only...
...flags," cautioned Pinay. "All this is very fragile. Patience!" But he could not resist flying to Washington this week to announce proudly that France will pay up $118 million of its $2 billion debt to the U.S. before...
...Tunner. is getting farther and farther away from its combat-carrying function as it steps up military passenger and cargo business, which under established Government policy should go to commercial carriers. The airlines worry that jet passenger transports will be but the first step in converting MATS' $1.2 billion fleet of aircraft into a $3 billion jet operation that will take away even more commercial business. Pan American World Airways is postponing its decision to buy new cargo jets until it finds out whether it must compete against a MATS jet fleet...