Word: billioned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Geneva, the negotiators declared that the treaty rescues "two-thirds of the surface of the earth from the sphere of the arms race." Obviously, the big concern is the other third, where the world's 3.5 billion people live. Heartening as the seabed treaty may be, a more valid test of the Soviets' eagerness to make real progress in arms control is how soon they will move from the seas to SALT...
...plants and machinery that had survived the heavy Allied bombing. Today East Germany is the world's ninth greatest industrial power. With a population of 17 million and an area roughly the same as Tennessee's, East Germany has a gross national product of $31.7 billion. Cameras from the Pentacon works at Dresden compete with Leicas from West Germany. TV sets from East Berlin are sold in the Federal Republic. Per capita ownership of TV sets is even higher in East Germany (211 per 1,000) than in West Germany...
...underfoot, and the snail outbreak may get still worse. Endowed with both male and female reproductive organs, the hermaphroditic snail multiplies at a phenomenal rate. In his authoritative study The Giant African Snail, University of Arizona Malacologist Albert R. Mead calculates that a single animal could theoretically produce 8 billion descendants in three years. Such spectacular proliferation requires a huge food supply-for example, Florida's luxuriant cash crops...
...Melon. The disputed merger is special because British Petroleum is 49% owned by the U.S.'s staunchest foreign ally, the British government. Equally important, BP stands to benefit hugely from its oil finds on Alaska's North Slope. BP has discovered reserves estimated at an enormous 5 billion barrels, or about 25% of the total believed to lie under that barren region. Seeking marketing outlets for its crude, a BP subsidiary last March bought approximately 8,250 East Coast filling stations from Sinclair...
Citing the power of the military, Stone said that a $21 billion military appropriations bill was passed by the House after only for hours of debate, despite the fact that few, if any, Congressmen hadread the 2600 pages of testimony on the bill...