Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have President Roosevelt and Emperor Hirohito, for the Treaty provides that any signatory may take the imaginary "escalator" up to greater sea armaments upon giving due notice. Last week Japan in her bold reply similarly climbed aboard the escalator, announced that she is enlarging her submarine fleet to exceed that of either Britain...
...into his Benguet Consolidated Mining 25 years ago would be worth $500,000 today. Even so, although he nursed his company along since 1909 it did not get into the big money until after 1926 when new ore deposits were discovered. Not until 1933 did its earnings exceed $2,800,000 a year; last year it earned...
...Just as my statue towers above the sons of earth, so shall the district from whose breast the ore and coal were torn and fused to give me birth, exceed all others in time's march. For o'er and o'er nature hath flung her treasures with a generous hand and Birmingham sits enthroned. Both hemispheres can draw on her; the mineral wealth of every land is there allied to rule the world in future years...
...protested: "Velocity dollars have nothing whatever in common with Social Credit, and Premier Aberhart has enacted not one single genuine Social Credit statute in Alberta." The great thing "Bible Bill" has done for mortgage-ridden Alberta farmers is to decree arbitrarily that no interest rate in the Province can exceed...
...Mussolini recently strengthened his control over industrial Italy by (1 abolishing labor unions, 2 setting up a Fascist Council to determine wages and prices, 3 decreeing 100% taxation on all profits over 5%, 4 decreeing that Italian imports must not exceed 10% of exports, 5 nationalizing banks and large industries...