Word: million
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...might interest you to know that this Company, having a capital of three hundred and fifteen million dollars and a surplus of approximately one-quarter of a billion, has no bond issue, preferred stock or bank loans ahead of the common. The stock of this Company is, by the way, considered in the West our leading prime investment...
...Debated and passed a bill appropriating some 285 millions to run the Department of the Interior, including 221 millions for military pensions and a quarter-million (first of four instalments) to buy up privately-owned lands in Yosemite National Park...
Venezuela is becoming suddenly famed as an oil boom country. Though in 1920 she exported less than half-a-million barrels, she is shipping this year just over 85 millions. Seldom indeed does a country's principal boom 17000% in less than a decade! Still more interesting, if possible, is the fact, that Venezuela's stupendous oil tax revenues all pour into the Treasury of one man, an absolute dictator of 20 years' standing, the stern and venerable President Juan Vicente Gomez...
...newspaper* printed on paper made from corn stalks was rather perfervid. Yet enthusiasm was warranted. One to two tons of corn stover (stalks, leaves, husks) grow to an acre. Only a small percentage is good for silage. The rest rots, making a national waste of 100 to 150 million tons of good vegetable matter a year...
...Niagara Falls. This transition resulted from the enterprise of William B. Rankine, who had built power houses on the Niagara River but had no factories to utilize the power of the Falls. Mr. Rankine visited Mr. Perky, persuaded him to move to Niagara. Here Mr. Perky built a two million dollar plant, which, however, got him into financial difficulties. Thereupon Mr. Rankine interested various capitalists from New York City, Buffalo and Niagara Falls in the formation of a ten million dollar stock company, one such capitalist being Mr. Alexander J. Porter, now Shredded Wheat President. Mr. Perky subsequently retired from...