Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...post-Sputnik era many a Congressman had raised his voice asking for the Administration to show "leadership." The Administration showed it by attacking the nation's $5 billion-a-year farm giveaway in an election year-when the money is sorely needed for defense. Judging by its first spokesmen, Congress was in no mood to deal with the issue...
...Iron Grip. In the new cold war struggle, said Dulles, the strengths of Communism are bound up in its iron grip upon nearly 1 billion people, enabling Communism to squeeze the great bulk of its resources into armaments and political-economic offensives. But the weaknesses of Communism are also bound up in that iron grip, above all in the restless demand of subject peoples for freedom of thought and freedom to buy more consumer goods. This is why the U.S. has been trying to base its cold war policies upon 1) "everpresent and ever-alert retaliatory power to deter Soviet...
...Eternal City from a decaying, pest-ridden capital of 500,000 into a marble and concrete metropolis with a population (1,800,000) surpassing that of Augustus' golden days. He has also made himself, as city tax records certify, the richest Roman of them all, worth some 100 billion lire ($160 million...
DEBT STRETCH-OUT will be attempted again by Treasury. It plans to offer long-term bonds as part of next month's $10.8 billion refinancing, believes that money has eased enough so that interest rate will be less than the 4% it paid on last September's twelve-year issue...
...Manhattan's Coliseum last week a record number of marine builders (397) launched the 48th National Motor Boat Show wlth a record number of boats (455). The boatbuilders were optimistic for 1958, expected that spending of waterborne Americans would top last year's record $1.91 billion...