Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other departments of Major National Security, the budgetmakers raise atomic energy funds a lean 4% to $2.8 billion, trim strategic stockpiling funds, slice foreign military aid a surprising 20% to $1.8 billion...
Habitual Corruption. Political morality under Batista, while conforming to a half-century of practice, hardly lived up to the idealistic constitution. During his seven years the gross national product soared from $2 billion to $2.6 billion, but the public debt rose from $200 million to $1.5 billion. Corruption ranged all the way from army sergeants who stole chickens to Batista himself, who shared with his cronies a 30% kickback on public-works contracts. Potbellied Chief of Staff Francisco Tabernilla and his family made off with the entire army retirement fund of $40 million. Havana storekeepers who wanted to attract crowds...
...General Dynamics Corp., $1.4 billion, including F-102 and F106 fighters, B58 supersonic bombers, atomic submarines, the Atlas ICBM...
...industry's biggest single customer totted up its annual accounting of who got what in fiscal 1958. All told last year, said the Defense Department, military contracts totaled $21.8 billion, of which 75% went to 100 top prime contractors...
...Boeing Airplane Co., with $2.1 billion, including 6-52 bombers, KC-135 jet tankers and Bomarc missiles...