Word: dollarses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MISSOURI'S CLARENCE CANNON, 79, has presided over the spending of more than a trillion dollars -exactly $1,040,597,183,594.75 -in his 18 years as chairman of the House Appropriations Committee. Homely (to an opponent who accused him of being two-faced, Cannon once replied: "My God, if...
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (20th Century-Fox), a British western shot in Spain, was apparently expected to convey the satiric notion that when Hollywood reaches for the six-shooter it usually produces something of a large bore. But somehow what comes across is the wistful and delightfully absurd idea...
He added that Yale means a great deal to New Haven," in dollars and cents alone," citing a $26 million payroll, money spent by the student body, and purchases by the many people attracted to New Haven by Yale.
Economists have long known that the gross national product, the nation's No. 1 economic growth indicator, has a serious flaw. It does not allow for inflation. When prices and production are both swooping up, the G.N.P. greatly overstates the rate of growth of the U.S. economy. When production...
Risk & Opportunity. The job is giant size-and a job for giants. Many an eager-beaver company found that out when it jumped into atomics in 1954 after the Government first permitted firms to own reactors, was forced to drop out in the face of expense and uncertainty. Today, the...