Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took until 1957 for the FDA to figure out by increasingly sensitive tests, that there is a minute residue of stilbestrol in other parts of caponettes than the head -20 to 30 parts per billion in the liver and 35 to 100 in the skin...
...world's most powerful atom smasher is in neither the U.S. nor in Russia; it is in Switzerland. In the rolling countryside three miles northwest of Geneva, the European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN) has built a great new proton synchrotron designed to produce 25 billion electron volts. Half buried in a hillside, it is a huge doughnut of magnet steel, 656 ft. in outside diameter. Last week British Physicist John B. Adams, chief of CERN's Proton Synchrotron Division, ordered slight corrections in the magnetic field, watched as the protons sped faster and faster around their circular...
...clerks were faced with similar problems as they tried to placate hordes of well-heeled customers who nocked into the stores for a record Christmas-buying spree. Dun & Bradstreet analysts estimated that sales in the nation's department stores and mail-order houses will reach a record $2.4 billion in December, up $200 million from 1958, the previous record...
LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY assets will climb to a record peak of $113.6 billion by the end of the year, up $6 billion from last year's high...
...Zone, he directed the reordering and rebuilding of a major segment of Germany, and fought the Russian blockade of Berlin. Since he joined Continental in 1950, he has used the lessons of his military engineer's career to triple Continental's sales (to $1.1 billion) and earnings (to $41 million), drive it from second place, well behind American Can, into position as the big gest U.S. container company. Last week General Clay pulled off an important maneuver: he settled with the Steelworkers Union for a threeyear, 28.2?-an-hour package, thus averting a possible strike...