Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will likely become obsolete before it is operational (two or three years). It also overlaps the role of manned interceptors (F-102, F-104,F-106). In the light of the Soviet jump over bombers to ICBMs, interceptors seem adequate for nonmissile air-defense needs, but Bomarc's billion-dollar program keeps right on abuilding...
...SAGE (for Semi-Automatic Ground Environment System) electronics net, designed to spot incoming enemy bombers for Bomarc and other antiaircraft weapons, has already cost $1.2 billion, is not yet fully operational. In the 1961 budget, SAGE requests additional funds to harden (encase in concrete) some of its installations, presumably against missile blows, although SAGE itself will be useless in the missile...
Acorns & Juniper Berries. With 208 babies being born every minute, the population of the world is expected to increase by about 49 million people in 1959, may well jump from the present 2.8 billion to more than 6 billion by the turn of the century. And because the first impact of modern medical techniques on a primitive society is a startling drop in the death rate, the bulk of this explosive population increase has occurred in the underdeveloped nations: the combined population of Asia, Africa and Latin America has increased by 600 million since 1936, is expected to jump another...
...nations, such as Canada and Australia, join in distributing their food surpluses freely to the world's hungry? The U.S. last year sent India 3½ million tons of wheat. Since 1954 the U.S. has furnished such nations as Italy, Tunisia, Korea, India and Formosa with about $1.8 billion worth of food, either as gifts or in return for payment in local currencies...
...with hard work, and one of the largest outlays of U.S. money abroad-more than $1 billion between that day and this, not counting extensive military equipment-Chiang's Formosa did survive, and one recent evening, the Gimo, accompanied by Madame Chiang, drove down to the heart of Taipeh to see the solid evidence of a decade of economic achievements at the First Annual Trade Fair of the Republic of China. "Hao, hao [good, good]," he said, as he passed through row after row of stalls proudly displaying Formosa-made trucks, machine tools, plastic toys-even Ivy League shirts...