Billions and Trillions. Can you imagine?
When I was a kid and I heard that someone was a millionaire, I was suitably awed. More than $1,000,000 was a staggering amount of wealth for one person to have. Years later, I heard that Howard Hughes was the worlds second richest person with a net worth estimated to be in excess of TWO BILLION dollars. He was second only to the sultan of Brunei, an oil rich potentate. We almost never heard the word billion and to tell you the truth, numbers that high only applied to things like bacteria or... Sign in to see full entry.