Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production in 22 years. This increase compares with an average rise of 2.9% for the 1909-57 period. Using 1954 dollars, the C.E.D. got a result substantially different from the Council of Economic Advisers' recent report that the G.N.P. rate in the third quarter of 1959 was $481 billion. In the C.E.D.'s 1954 dollars it was only $431 billion...
CASH DIVIDENDS on common stocks listed on New York Stock Exchange rose to record high of $6.7 billion during first nine months, 5.4% higher than in same period...
...IMPORT RECORD of $1.4 billion was set in September, bringing nine-month total to $11.3 billion v. exports of $11.8 billion...
...CUSTOMERS will increase to 44.5 million by end of 1970 v. 31.2 million in 1958, predicts American Gas Association. Industry expects its plant and equipment nearly to triple in value to $49 billion by that time and total sales to reach $11.8 billion, v. $4.6 billion...
...Billion in Britain. The supermarketeers are firmly established in Britain, where self-service is already a major business. Ten years ago, there were only 500 self-service stores, doing less than $50 million annually. Today, Britain has more than 5,000 self-service stores, with a total annual gross of nearly $1 billion, and at least 90 new stores join the ranks each month. This week, Britain's fastest growing chain, Cookie (Allied Bakeries) Magnate Garfield Weston's Fine Fare Ltd., will open three big supermarkets in a single day, plans to double his chain of 39 stores...