Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmer unrest was totted up in dollars and cents last week by the U.S. Agriculture Department: primarily because of a drop in hog and chicken prices, total farm income fell much faster in 1959 than predicted only a month ago, will fall 15% below 1958 to about $11.2 billion, and will probably slide another 7% or more...
Swamped. Chief target of farmer anger was still Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who for seven years fought the scandalous farm subsidy program by urging Congress to reduce Government acreage controls and price props. Unhappy result: the U.S. farm program will cost a record $6.6 billion in fiscal...
...farmers to raise a bumper crop. And, as Benson's own department admitted last week, it swamped by 600 million bushels the previous all-time corn record set in 1958. Reason: farmers boosted production to make up for lower prices. Result: more corn to add to the $9 billion Government-stored crop surplus. In 1960 the taxpayers of the U.S. will pay out $1 billion for storage and interest alone...
...administration officials believe these countries could add perhaps a half a billion dollars more to such programs without strain. Herter avoided naming any countries he feels could do more...
AUGUSTA, Ga., Nov. 16--President Eisenhower agreed tentatively today to a new 1962 military budget which proposes to trim manpower slightly while keeping defense spending at about the present $41 billion level. Modern weapons apparently will get the nod over personnel. Military manpower now is about 2 1/2 million. How much and where it might be pared was not disclosed...