Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week the President was clearing the desk of his domestic problems, and getting ready for foreign problems to come. He conferred with Treasury Secretary Robert B. Anderson and Budget Director Maurice Stans on next fiscal year's $81 billion budget, presided over a meeting of the National Security Council on next fiscal year's $41 billion defense budget. He took time out to reassure NATO's visiting Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak of the U.S.'s strong support for NATO, to reassure the Soviet Union's Atomic Energy Boss Vasily Emelyanov (see SCIENCE...
...public is not going to keep on putting out money without getting results." Like many another leader in the wheat-corn belt, Boone recognized that farmers have just about harvested their way to the end of public patience with a farm subsidy program that now costs a scandalous $6.6 billion a year and gets worse with each crop (current Government-owned surplus: $9 billion...
Food is the biggest industry in the U.S., but with all the $80 billion in sales it generates, the more than 1,000,000 it employs and the 373,000 retail stores it serves, the industry has changed itself completely to lead, cheer and consolidate the revolution. Canned goods are still the old and tested convenience foods, but such startling gains have been made by mixes, frozen food and instant drinks that one in every three of the time-and labor-saving products was unheard of only ten years...
...make charity easy, solicitors for the Combined Charities have started their canvassing. Even in these days of billion-big sums, every dollar helps...
WASHINGTON, Nov. 29--President Eisenhower has decided to ask Congress for a new foreign aid appropriation of slightly more than four billion dollars, including a substantial increase in funds for military assistance...