Word: millions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...price, the Government's Commodity Credit Corp. bailed him out. That was all right during the war, when CCC, with $4,750,000,000 to draw on, could sell whatever it bought. Even as late as June 1948, CCC had laid out a mere $294 million. But in the 16 months since, CCC purchases-to keep the farmer's income up-had increased fantastically. Last week CCC President Ralph S. Trigg announced that CCC had tied up more than $3 billion in mountains of produce it could not get off its hands, and indicated that it would probably...
...million pounds of dried milk...
...million pounds of butter...
...million pounds of Cheddar cheese, stored mostly in Wisconsin...
...million pounds of dried eggs (the equivalent of 192-million-dozen eggs...