Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Tips to waiters not to exceed 60c per day; to bell boys and maids not over 30c. Laundry not to exceed $1.40 per week; pressing not over $1.25. If there is no bath in the room rented by the Government traveling man, he must not spend more than 50c per day for such an item. A little pamphlet is being printed to inform the unwary traveler exactly what to do. Therein he is told how late he may arrive at a place for breakfast in order to have it paid for by the Government. The new rules will go into...
...production was 26% of the total. Last year the Ford Co. made 42.8% of all (in 1924 51.1%), General Motors, 19.2% (in 1924, 16%). The Ford Co.'s daily production averaged about 5,000 units the first six months of 1926, although the capacity is believed to exceed...
...Stamp, co-author of the Dawes Plan anent the "idle" rich. Sir Josiah doubted that this much maligned class of British society numbered over 1,000 able-bodied persons. He demonstrated that if all British incomes from ?250 ($1217. 50) upward were pooled, the income per family would not exceed five shillings ($1.20) weekly. "In America," he said, "inequality of wealth stirs men to effort, emulation, ambition." He propounded the economic and eugenic advantages of a novel "moving annuity," whereby a father's property would pass to his son, not at death, but gradually, in middle life...
...Francis Galton put this theory briefly when he said several years ago: "Our race is overweighted. It will degenerate under circumstances which make demands that exceed its powers." The enormous increase of knowledge and the increasing complexity of the curriculum in our universities is analogous to the increase of things and the increasing complexity of social organization in our civilization as a whole. It is, perhaps, more than analogous. It may well be an organic part of the larger social process that Galton described. We are witnessing today both the collapse of our curricula from structural overloading and the beginnings...
...tons a year of nitrogen fertilizer in three years, 20,000 tons annually in six years and 40,000 annually in eight years. The last 20,000 tons of this production is predicated on the previous sale of the smaller output. Profits on the fertilizer are not to exceed 8%, and a farmers' board is to supervise the books and manner of distribution. Excess power will be distributed under supervision to neighboring states. 2) The Air Nitrates Corporation bid comes from the American Cyanid Co. The rental for both dams No. 2 and No. 3 would...