Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year to store surplus wheat, corn and grain sorghums bought from his and other farms. Soon after the harvesting gets under way this month, the big 1959 crop will be piled on top of the two-year U.S. surplus already owned or under loan by the Agriculture Department (1.2 billion bushels...
...spanking new Common Market headquarters on Brussels' aptly named Avenue de la Joyeuse Entree, Walter Hallstein, the German law professor who presides over the Common Market executive, could point to solid progress. Already the Common Market's European Investment Bank (capital: $1 billion) had made its first loans. Others of Hallstein's 1,000-odd employees were busily working out common tariffs and establishing procedures so that any citizen of the Six may seek a job or set up a business anywhere in Common Market territory...
...rush to buy sent manufacturers' sales in April smashing through their pre-recession peak, reported the Commerce Department last week. Sales reached $30.2 billion v. $29.1 billion in March, and new orders also set a record by climbing $800 million above March. For this reason-and other signs of heartiness in the economy-Commerce Department reported that the recovery is proceeding "at a better-than-seasonal pace and on a broadening scale." But it pointed out that the upward surge of the boom is still ahead: despite a 2% rise in industrial output above pre-recession highs, the rise...
April contracts for future construction rose 31% over a year ago to $3.8 billion, setting a new April record. With construction contracts running 22% ahead of last year for 1959's first four months, industry leaders were upping their forecasts, now expect a gain of up to 13% over the 1958 construction total. Machine-tool orders in April rose to $53.4 million over March's $51.5 million...
CORPORATE PENSION FUNDS rose $2.8 billion last year to record $22.1 billion. Companies added $1.2 billion in common stocks to portfolios, raised amount of funds in common stocks...