Word: trillion
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Smullin and Fiocco estimate that each of its 1/2,000-sec. flashes squirted 2 X 10 21 (200 billion trillion) photons of light toward the moon. Most of these tiny bits of light got there, but those reflected by the moon's rough, dark surface scattered widely. Only a few of them bounced back to Lincoln Lab. Bunched together by a 48-in. telescope, the returning photons were sent through a filter that passed only light of the laser's wave length. Then the photons were picked up by a sensitive photocell...
...steady rise of the U.S. budget points to a milestone that cannot be far distant. Just as the nation's gross national product crossed the long-awaited half-trillion dollar mark in 1960. so the U.S. budget is headed for a less eagerly awaited pinnacle: $100 billion. If Kennedy's next three budgets increase at the same rate as Eisenhower's last three, the big day will arrive...
Touched off when static electricity ignited gas escaping from a blown valve at a well called GT2, the Gassi Touil fire would, if it went unchecked, burn for the next century, wasting forever one of the largest underground reservoirs of natural gas (an estimated 7 trillion cu. ft.) yet tapped by man. To avert this economic tragedy, the field's owners-a combine consisting of two French companies, called COPEFA and OMNIREX, and the U.S.'s Phillips Petroleum Co.-have called in daredevil Texan Paul Adair, 46, president of Houston's Red Adair Oil Well Fires & Blowouts...
galactic. adj. extremely great: HUGE. "the galactic figure of one trillion, 370 billion francs...
...businessmen of the U.S. who overlook the abundance of opportunities for free enterprise for men with "guts" who do not need recourse to the Federal Government. My hat's off to the Murchisons for upholding the pride of capitalism. I hope they set a precedent and make a trillion dollars...