Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Speaking informally before the Dunster House Forum, he stated that the economy should "run the risk of a future inflationary upturn" in order to halt the far more dangerous problem of depression. The United States economy, with a potential gross national product of about $450 billion can well support a deficit as high as $10 billion, he asserted...
...House and Senate voted final approval of a $1.5 billion pork barrel rivers-and-harbors authorization bill-with pork fatter by some $34 million in new projects added to the Senate version while the bill was before a conference committee, sent it to the President...
...physical impression I had of Russia, as we descended from the plane, was the quality of the metal ladder-flimsy, antique, short by half a step, and made of some queer light metal, ornately engraved. Dozens of times later, I saw similar ladders. The Russians can build a ten-billion electron-volt cyclotron, but a good simple flashlight seems beyond them. Priority goes to what counts; nobody cares if you break a leg hoisting yourself on an airplane, but to put an artificial moon in the sky is something else again...
AIRLINE INCOME tumbled 51.4% in 1957. Despite record gross of $1.5 billion, net operating revenues totaled only $53.8 million v. $110.9 million in 1956, with American Airlines (down from $37 million to $17 million) and Eastern Air Lines (down from $28 million to $11 million) taking biggest dollar slumps...
INCOME-TAX REFUNDS will go to an estimated 35 million of the 60 million U.S. payers this year. Treasury plans to kick back about $3.6 billion in overpayments. Average refund: about...