Word: billion
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Administration Proposes $40.9 Billion for Defense...
LIFE-POLICY SALES dipped in 1958 for first time since 1951. Purchases through November dropped 2% to $58.5 billion. Sales of ordinary life insurance policies rose, but new group and industrial life totals fell...
...wash an average of 150 dishes a day. Families are getting bigger, and more wives are working. The growth in convenience foods is going to be terrific. We're just at the beginning of the era." Chandler estimates that packaging in the food industry today is a $6 billion market; by 1965 he expects it to be $9.5 billion...
DEVELOPMENT LOAN FUND, from which U.S. lends to spur private enterprises abroad, has suffered severe pruning in battle of budget. With backlog of about $1.5 billion in loan requests from all parts of world, fund had hopes for $1 billion appropriation in next fiscal year. But Administration reluctantly cut figure to $700 million, and Congress is expected to trim more...
...CORPORATE PROFITS will jump to $21.5 billion, up a full 20% from 1958's estimated $17.8 billion and just a shade below $21.8 billion of 1957, predicts National Securities & Research Corp., one of leading mutual funds (assets: more than $400 million...