Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1920 — Be Glad You Have Not a Billion. [ARTICLE]

Be Glad You Have Not a Billion.

What does a billion mean to you? Well, rate* the Brooklyn bridge—one of the engineering wonders of the world—as a basis of comparison. Thirteen long years were required to build it. Thousands of lives went into its making. It cost $21,000,000. Yet with’ $1,000,000,000 s we would have sufficient to build forty-eight Brooklyn bridges says the Popular Science Monthly. Here’s another way of comprehending 1,000,000,000. Suppose that in the summer of 1870 a paying teller ‘ Mad started counting $1 bills. Cqpnting 'at the rate of 150 a minute, and working eight hours a day, 365 days a year.’ allowing for Sundays, holidays and al short vacation, he would have handed out his last bill in the summer of 1916.