Word: billion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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WASHINGTON, April 28--Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas predicted today that Congress will cut President Eisenhower's budget below the $77 billion he asked for, but perhaps will not balance the budget...
...Personal income in March rose to a new high of $368.6 billion at a seasonally adjusted annual rate, a gain of $3.2 billion from February's previous high of $365.4 billion...
...Gross national product in the first quarter increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $465 billion, up from $453 billion in the fourth quarter last year, the President's Council of Economic Advisers reported in a preliminary estimate...
Corporate profits in the first quarter of 1959 rose to $47 billion, an alltime peak. So Government statisticians estimated last week, as glowing first-quarter earnings continued to come...
...sporadic, smelly-and they are running $17 million in the red this year. Last week a private operator offered to relieve New York of this financial headache, reportedly was ready to pay upwards of $500 million in cash and bonds-give or take a few million-for the $2.1 billion transit system. Said O.(for Oscar) Roy Chalk, 51, able admiral of D.C. Transit System, the national capital's surface lines: "I'd like to prove that private enterprise, with $1, can go 50 times the distance that public enterprise...