Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...military expenditures of the United States, England, France and Italy will be well over a billion dollars this year...
Blunted Hatchet. To the Ways and Means Committeemen, Witness Weeks pointed out that the U.S. sells abroad 9% of all the movable goods it produces, that U.S. exports in 1957 added up to $19.5 billion, a sum greater than the domestic sales of the entire U.S. automobile industry. Added Agriculture. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson: in 1957 the U.S. exported $4.7 billion worth of farm products, about one-tenth of the total output. In order to protect the nation's vast and vital export trade, argued Weeks and other Administration witnesses, the U.S. must import goods so that foreign countries...
Aware that a classic battle looms, President Eisenhower sent to Congress last week a request for $3.9 billion in foreign-aid funds, $500 million more than the budget-slashing Congress voted last year. Two-thirds of the total is tagged for military aid and defense support, one-third for economic aid. Along with his request for "the smallest amount we may wisely invest in mutual security," the President sent a strongly worded message defending...
...thermonuclear war. The U.S. might as well get ready to scratch the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, they boast, since 40 Polaris subs (life span: 15-20 years), along with the necessary hardware, crews, tenders and a few extra bases, would cost only $7 billion-and that would about pay for all the deterrent the U.S. needs...
...left outside the main body. It gathered into planets whose rapid orbital circling took away from the star most of its energy of rotation. So any star that rotates slowly, says Dr. Struve, is likely to have a brood of planets. Since the whole galaxy contains about 100 billion stars, Dr. Struve calculates that it has 10 billion slow-spinning stars with planets revolving around them. The sun has eight planets (not counting Pluto), but if the average star with planets has only five, there must be 50 billion planets in the galaxy...