Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Germany's rate of currency depreciation and her State deficits now far exceed those of Soviet Russia. In foreign exchange, rates for the mark are so vastly depreciated that they can be expressed only in incalculably large figures. In both London and New York prominent banks have refused to quote, buy or sell the vanishing German currency any longer. It is likewise being stricken off the prominent European stock exchanges, where ordinarily foreign exchange is traded in actively...
...French North African Colonies reported a bumper wheat crop. The total is expected to exceed 20,000,000 quintals,* as against 9,471,300 for last year. This crop, added to the French home crop of 65,000,000 quintals, brings the nation's crops within its needs, which are estimated at 85,000,000 quintals a year...
...found myself involuntarily doffing my hat to the editor and publisher who succeeds in maintaining a daily issue in a town of 800 to 1,200 people, where the circulation maximum cannot exceed 200 to 300 copies...
...likely to come true even sooner than he probably expected, for, in announced figures on Canal traffic for the fiscal year recently closed, he found that the rate of travel is now double that of a year ago, and tolls for the next year, at the present rate, will exceed $24,000,000, of which about $18,000,000 is profit above over-head expense...
...alarming inroads have roused Governments. Lord Curzon in a public speech said many valuable works in Britain's private libraries were crossing the Atlantic. American imports of paintings, etchings and antiques from London only for the first six months of 1923 were $3,716,644, and will probably exceed $8,000,000 for the year. Sir Wilfrid Hart Sugden, Unionist M. P. for Lancashire, broached the subject on the floor of Commons and called for the Government to offer fair prices to magnates who are compelled to sell their objets d'art to Americans to pay their income...