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George Marshall wrote the Marshall Plan and it was adopted.
Missouri would be admitted to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
George C. Marshall
George C. Marshall
proposed the american system
A pentillion was the name proposed for what is not known as a quadrillion = 10^15. This was necessitated by the confusion between the US and European use of billion (thousand million or million million) and higher numbers. New names, based on Greek roots, were proposed. In many countries the European names have now been dropped in favour of the US names. So the next term would have been a hextillion.
There was extensive discussion in the Continental Congress concerning the length of the terms in the Senate as well as how to best turn over the membership. Nathaniel Gorham, Edmund Randolph and Hugh Williamson proposed different scenarios but it was Gorham who finally proposed the winning combination. The Senate would serve 6-year terms with a third of the membership turning over every two years.
To get around the confusion between the US and European use of billion (thousand million or million million) and higher numbers new names, based on Greek roots, were proposed. In many countries the European names have now been dropped in favour of the US names. Pentillion was the name proposed for quadrillion = 1015 It would have had 15 zeros if the name had caught on.
The Missouri Compromise, passed in 1820, admitted Missouri to the ... This time, Speaker of the House Henry Clay proposed that Congress ...
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John Hay proposed the Open Door Policy in China to combat the European spheres of influence. The United States wanted a strong presence in China and wanted cooperation from the countries already staking claim there.