Word: billioned
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Socialist ministers threatened to pull out of the coalition Cabinet charging the government was victimizing the workers. They were up in arms over Gaillard's austerity plan to slash food subsidies and thus send up retail prices. The Premier put the plan forward in a move to save 90 billion francs (214 million dollars) for the government...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 4--Sen. Knowland (R-Calif.) reported tonight it probably will be necessary to postpone a three-billion-dollar-a-year reduction in corporation and excise taxes scheduled for next June...
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3--The Eisenhower administration is planning to spend an extra 21/2 billion dollars next year on defense and foreign aid to meet the challenge of Russia's military-scientific advances, it was reported today...
Since 1945, when the great offshore rush began, the oil industry has spent some $2 billion-including more than $400 million in lease payments to the U.S., Texas and Louisiana*-on the search. But it has earned back only some $400 million...
...billion in new jets now on order, the domestic airlines last week pleaded with CAB for a fare boost. Since the airlines' request for a temporary 6% rise in fares was turned down earlier this year, several things have happened to help CAB see things more the airlines' way, including a further drop in carrier profits and the shock of Capital Airlines' recent request for a $20 million federal subsidy...