Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...business firms also make a whopping parallel contribution to Latin American treasuries. Department of Commerce figures show that U.S.-owned companies in 1955 paid at least $1.1 billion in taxes, or 15% of all Latin American government revenues...
...have it within our power to eradicate from the face of the earth that age-old scourge of mankind: malaria." So said President Eisenhower last week in his State of the Union speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). By latest estimates, two-fifths of the world's 2.6 billion people are subject to the disease; each year 200 million suffer from malaria, and 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 die of it. In the 60 years since the discovery that the disease is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, men of medicine have had periodic fevers of hope about...
...grown from a $14 million midget in 1946 to a $1.5 billion giant-a hundredfold sales increase. From two plants employing 3,500 people, it has spread across the U.S. and all the Western Hemisphere into more than 100 plants with upwards of 100,000 workers...
...have already submitted to the Defense Department plans for an anti-missile missile, the Wizard II, which could search out an incoming enemy ICBM and explode it high in the atmosphere. The Wizard could conceivably be put into production by 1965 (at a cost of up to $5 billion) if the Defense Department gives an immediate go-ahead for a crash program...
DEFENSE CONTRACTS written during calendar 1958 will spurt to $23.2 billion v. estimated $17.5 billion worth in 1957, says Defense Department...