The wartime annual rate of Federal expenditures has been reduced by 32 billion dollars, while the Nation's budget total has dropped only half as much.
From this Isle of Penguins--which is not that described by Anatole France--a billion dollars' worth of guano was taken and the deposit was soon exhausted.
The textile industries of Great Britain, that brought in a billion dollars a year and employed one and a half million workers, were crippled for lack of dyes.
Already they have been brought down half a billion dollars a year, and in all likelihood they will be even further lowered.
It has loaned upwards of a billion dollars to the belligerent countries, and has had a net importation of gold during the year just closed greater than that of any five years of its history.
The rest, he figured, was merely scaling it up--which any dimwit with half a billion dollars could do with ease.
That bastard who took us over just gave us a billion dollars of publicity.
As a matter of fact, I'm going to make you the beneficiary of a billion dollars' worth of free publicity.
A historian of Deseret, as the colony was called by the Mormons, estimated in 1895 that by the labor of their hands the people had produced nearly half a billion dollars in wealth since the coming of the vanguard.
To the debt must be added nearly half a billion dollars in "greenbacks"--paper money issued by Congress in desperation as bond sales and revenues from taxes failed to meet the rising expenditures.
But in the summer of 1909 all records were surpassed, American borrowings in London and Paris footing up to at least half a billion dollars.
For an hour he and George talked of canyons in which, they decided, somebody would find a billion dollars and I decided Democracy was safe on the desert.
The Comstock Lode produced over a billion dollars.
Jim Randolph, I have to-day a billion dollars, not the Rockefeller or Carnegie kind, but a real billion.
He agrees to buy to the limit of his fortune of a billion dollars.
Men of Wall Street, it is impossible to prevent the repetition of those acts by which in five years I have accumulated a billion dollars, impossible so long as a short sale or a repurchase and resale, is allowed.
I will buy until I have exhausted to the last hundred my fortune of a billion dollars.
Because of the introduction of a billion dollars worth of gold into the country, prices have risen nearly one hundred percent.
The imports from Europe are bound to be offset by our own exports, some able economists predicting a balance of a billion dollars in our favor for the next five years.
But in December, 1919, these banks held a trifle over a billion dollars' worth of gold, while our paper money was over four billion.
Our next step in seeking immediate relief is a grant of half a billion dollars to help the states, counties and municipalities in their duty to care for those who need direct and immediate relief.
If I turn loose a billion dollars' worth of diamonds within the year you are ruined--all of you.
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