Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian trade jumped from $598,000,000 to $748,000,000 last year, is this year running 25% ahead of the first seven months...
Income for the fiscal year is now expected to run ahead of the previous twelvemonth by $1,357,000,000, biggest gains being in income and social security taxes. But the estimated total has been revised downward from $7,293,000,000 to $6,650,000,000, a $643,000,000 drop largely reflecting poor results from the undistributed profits tax and less sanguine expectations for business and stockmarket...
...went straight back to his penthouse atop the Narragansett clubhouse, where he was shortly greeted by a racing division order suspending Narragansett's license (TIME, Sept. 27 et ante). Since then he has been simultaneously fighting the division in the courts and in the Star-Tribune, going blithely ahead with plans for the track's fall meeting, scheduled to run from last week through Armistice Day. The Star-Tribune enjoyed another big news break when the State Supreme Court set aside the racing division's ruling, apparently left Narragansett free to open on schedule, but last week...
...serious disturbances during the administration of Mayor LaGuardia the police have demonstrated the ability to cope with ugly situations in scientific fashion, reducing damage to a minimum. Furthermore, every patrolman on the force knows in his heart that under the Fusion Government the only way to get ahead is by honesty and straight-dealing, and that the days of political protection for the racketeer are over...
Munroe wouldn't have minded this little friendly rivalry except for the fact that the saxophonists were so far ahead of the rest of the band that they lapped the others in going through the repertoire for the third time...