Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...restrictions against U.S. trade with Russia, said Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, if Khrushchev follows through on his promise to reopen negotiations on the unpaid lend-lease debt, shows good faith by some reasonable payment on an obligation that the U.S. has already written down from $2.6 billion to $800 million. Moscow also published a fact that U.S. sources politely kept off the record for a week: Khrushchev asked industriailsts and financiers at a Washington dinner for loans to finance Soviet purchases...
...Signed without comment the $3.2 billion foreign-aid appropriations bill-cut by the Congress $704 million below his request-which carried a rider extending for two years the life of the Civil Rights Commission...
...Journal's success story parallels the prodigious post-Depression growth of the business community, where stocks and bonds traded on the New York Stock Exchange alone are worth some $382 billion today, v. $96 billion just two decades ago. Its high status is a far cry from its humble and parochial birth. Brainchild of three young men named Charles H. Dow, Edward D. Jones and Charles M. Bergstresser, who had made a modest mark by peddling financial news to customers around Wall Street, the Journal was conceived as a stock-market chronicle in 1889. When Dow. Jones...
...second quarter, U.S. corporations reported the largest quarterly increase in nine years in working capital. The $3 billion boost brought the total to a record $125.4 billion...
...Personal debt, in the largest jump in four years, rose by an estimated $5.9 billion in the second quarter, to a total of $157.9 billion...