Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...States have income taxes. In these States the maximum normal tax on maximum incomes does not exceed 8%. Thus the U. S. citizen in all cases is liable to much lower total income tax than the British citizen...
...particular stigma attached to the company's financial condition. According to German law a company must seek liquidation in court if its liabilities exceed 50^ of its assets. Junkers Aircraft assets were supposed to be nearly adequate ($5,236,000 against $3,094,000 liabilities), but frozen. A Junkers unit closely allied with the aircraft company, and like it wholly owned by famed Professor Hugo Junkers. is Motorenbau which builds airplane and other engines. Borsig Co., a licensee of Motorenbau but not a Junkers enterprise, went into bankruptcy last December. Borsig was a substantial creditor of Motorenbau...
Statistics of the distribution of distances and relative magnitudes in double stars indicate that since their origin the masses of the stars could not decrease appreciably, and that the drop in luminosity of an average star of the dwarf branch cannot exceed half a magnitude since its origin, instead of the expected six magnitudes or more, and the probable value of the drop in luminosity is zero...
...control to the States? The Wets, with no hope of actual victory, purposed by this ballot to put every House member on record on Prohibition, weed out the weaslers for the coming campaign, exhibit the growing Wet strength. Before the counting began, Drys claimed the Wet vote would not exceed 160. Wets predicted they would get at least 180. Final result: 227 Drys voting No; 187 Wets voting...
...that the wind will not be able to move the spire. Slender towers present little difficult since they expose a more or less rounded figure to the wind which meets more resistance in square buildings. Contrary to popular opinion the sway of even the tallest modern buildings does not exceed an inch. Experiments, in which a plumb line was dropped from the tallest elevator shaft in the Woolworth Building during one of the severest wind storms that have visited New York City this winter, revealed a away of only 5-8 of an inch...