Word: billion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...House Banking Committee's subcommittee approved an omnibus $2.1 billion housing bill-$575 million less than the Senate version but still $500 million over the Administration program...
...Brazzaville, when the colonies rallied to his cause, France had been taking a new interest in her southern empire. While, before the war. the whole of French Africa got only one-eighth of what France poured into her other overseas territories, it has since received more than $2 billion. Of that, $79 million has gone to Guinea...
Reading the Signs. Despite the $1 billion which the U.S. has pumped into the Spanish economy since 1951, Spain, by a marvel of mismanagement, is in serious economic straits. In two years, the cost of living has jumped 40%, and prices are still rising. Spanish gold reserves are down to a skimpy $57 million; dollar reserves are virtually exhausted. And despite an official ban on the existence of any political party except Franco's decrepit Falange, Spain abounds in opposition groups. Well known to Franco's police, they range from a clutch of monarchist factions to syndicalists...
...priority system in the allocation of labor and transport, Peking's bureaucrats ordered a cutback in the backyard blast-furnace campaign. But all signs are that the shock-program concept still prevails. Currently, Red China's masses are engrossed in a drive to collect and distribute 10 billion tons of fertilizer; the nation's steel production target for 1959 is set for 18 million tons, a 64% increase over alleged production last year. Says one Hong Kong hand: "If they got snarled up last year, think what's going to happen if they achieve these goals...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 9--The Eisenhower administration today formally unveiled a five-year program of federal school aid, aimed at helping to provide five billion dollars worth of facilities...