Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...there any prospect of a balanced budget in fiscal 1960, beginning a year from now? In reply to this press-conference question, the President said that he expected the deficit to "diminish" in 1960, but that it would take an "awful shrinkage" to bring $10 billion down to zero. In short...
...from one true-breeding strain to another, it may have some similar effect on higher animals, including humans. If such a process is discovered, not much DNA will be needed. The entire supply of DNA that could control the heredity of the next generation of the human species (several billion individuals) could be put in a cube one twenty-fifth of an inch on a side...
From the Pentagon came new figures showing that the major impact of stepped-up Defense spending still lies ahead for U.S. business. In fiscal 1958. just ended, new orders-the key to future activity-rose from $2.1 billion in the opening quarter to $3.9 billion in the second, $4.7 billion in the third and an estimated $5.3 billion in the final quarter. New construction orders rose even more swiftly than the overall rate: from a $40 million-a-month level last fall to $300 million in June...
Because of production lead time, the actual cash payments from the Pentagon went up more slowly, reaching $38.7 billion for the year, v. the $39.1 billion expected. The shortfall throws that much more actual spending over into fiscal 1959. Last week the Defense Department scratched the most recent estimate for 1959 spending of $40.5 billion and wrote in $40.7 billion, probably only the first of several upward revisions...
...Over $1 billion...