Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frequently outdoing the Socialists at their own game, the Tories have increased expenditures on the welfare state by four billion dollars annually. Fulfilling a promise which the Labourites declared visionary in the 1955 election, over two million houses have gone up under the housing program. And finally, the Tories are ending the draft this year. Not surprisingly, the Conservative theme has been "Life Is Better with the Conservatives. Don't Let Labour Ruin...
...weeks of the campaign the Labour Party seems to have found some profitable issues, notably pensions and high rents. They have promised every pensioner $1.40 more a week and have made broad promises of educational and medical improvements. The estimated cost of these welfare pledges is estimated at one billion dollars the first year, which Labour plans to acquire without increasing taxes...
Personal income in August was also nipped by the strike, and fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of $381.4 billion, $2.6 billion below the July level of the nation's wage and salary payments. In five manufacturing industries closely allied to steel-primary metals, mining, transportation, fabricated metals and machinery-the August annual rate of personal income was down $3 billion from the July annual rate and $4.5 billion below the June rate. Since the steel strike started last July 15, an estimated 500,000 steelworkers and 155,000 workers laid off in allied industries have lost something...
...ahead. It must spread monetary law and order to the rest of the world, particularly to underdeveloped countries, which are suffering from fiscal foolishness and gyrating currencies. To help him, the 68-country Fund last week agreed to increase national contributions, up the Fund's bank roll $9.1 billion to $15 billion...
Attracted to the new recreation palaces, an estimated 26.5 million Americans this year will pay $440 million to bowl. The entire bowling business, i.e., investments in alleys, bowling equipment and fees, will gross more than a billion dollars in 1959 for the first time. New bowlers are increasing at the rate of 12%-14% a year. The rules-making American Bowling Congress' paid membership has jumped to 3,250,000 this year from 1,500,000 five years ago, and the number of A.B.C. certified lanes in the U.S. has increased to 87,475 from...