Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Senate and House conferees shaved .more than $1 billion and four years off the Senate version of the omnibus housing bill, agreed on a two-year, $1,375,400,000 appropriation in the hope that it would escape the veto...
...House voted to raise the temporary limit on the national debt to $295 billion-precisely what Ike had requested...
...cleverly booby-trapped-a fact that the battlescarred Congress should realize, but apparently doesn't. Two weeks ago Texas Democrat Olin E. Teague, chairman of the Veterans' Affairs Committee, presented the House with a beguiling, Administration-backed pension-reform bill that, it was claimed, would save $12 billion over the next 40 years by tightening the rules on federal pensions for needy veterans. After less than 40 minutes of debate, the House gave the bill its overwhelming endorsement and won itself another Purple Heart...
...wars-may claim pensions, even if the husband's death was in no way connected with his military service. The House bill extends the same privilege to widows and children of 205,684 veterans of World War II and Korea. Estimated cost over the next four decades: $22 billion. So, instead of saving the taxpayers $12 billion, the House bill would actually cost them an additional $10 billion...
...Commerce Department reported that personal income rose to a record annual rate of $376.2 billion in May, $3 billion above the month before. The Labor Department added that spendable earnings (income after federal taxes) also reached a record in May of $81.03 a week for a factory worker with three dependents. The department also reported a May rise of 0.1% in the consumer price index to a record 124% of the 1947-49 price average. But Bureau Price Chief H. E. Riley said that the change was an expected seasonal rise that has taken place every year but one since...