Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...building two huge long-range radar stations designed to cover the Communist land mass from the Pacific to Poland and give early warning of Communist missile strikes at a range of 3,000 miles. Name of project: Ballistic Missile Early Warning System, or BMEWS (pronounced be-muse). Cost: $1 billion. The Air Force hopes to complete the Thule station this year, the Clear station in 1960, hopes to get BMEWS operational by the time the Communists are expected to begin deploying sizable intercontinental missile forces...
...reasonable price stability" among the nation's explicit economic goals. Commented Walter Reuther's Economic Policy Committee: "An empty gesture." As advocates of more federal spending see it, the Administration's balanced budget is also an empty gesture. They argue that a deficit of a few billion dollars in the next fiscal year can have only a slight impact in a $475 billion-a-year economy. But as a symbol of a commitment to fight inflation, the attempt at a balanced budget is a highly important gesture. "If we cannot live within our means as prosperity...
...months earlier Republican Rockefeller, just elected by a 550,000-vote margin over Democrat Averell Harriman, captivated the legislature's Republicans by painting in broad inaugural brushstrokes a picture of the road ahead. Then legislators got a glimpse of the canvas' detail. Rockefeller introduced a record $2 billion budget, asked an unprecedented $277 million in new taxes to balance it. Many newspapers were horrified, legislators were inundated with letters protesting the increases...
WASHINGTON, March 13-President Eisenhower told Congress today that the almost four billion dollars he wants for foreign aid would be money well spent...
...Purdue's Dr. Andrews discovered how to put tiny pellets of stilbestrol, a synthetic female sex hormone, under the skins of cattle and sheep to make them gain weight 15% faster. Today 80% of the nation's beef cattle get stilbestrol. This helps farmers produce an estimated billion pounds more meat than they could have got for the same amount of feed without stilbestrol...