Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposed ten-floor Health Center at Holyoke St. and Massachusetts Ave. would not exceed that block's 100-foot "business B" zone limit, either, McClennan said...
...settlers (plus 230,000 tourists) from the U.S. each year, and a growing movement for U.S. statehood, has not a single English-language daily newspaper. San Juan's big Spanish daily, El Mundo, tried the idea twice, most recently in 1957, dropped the venture when circulation failed to exceed 7,000. Last week there was another entrant: U.S. Publisher Gardner ("Mike") Cowles (Look magazine, Des Moines Register and Tribune) announced publication of an English-language daily, the San Juan Star. First issue...
...everything from cameras to transistors to hibachi charcoal braziers, last week were briskly redesigning their little cars for a full-scale commercial assault. The cars lead a broader invasion of the U.S. market by all manner of Japanese heavy industrial goods. This year Japanese exports to the U.S. will exceed $800 million (v. $229 million in 1952); close to $200 million will be in precision and heavy manufactured goods, directly competitive with products in which the U.S. specializes. Throughout the world, Japanese exports of heavy goods-turbines to Brazil, electric train cars to India, bulldozers to Spain-are targeted...
...crawling man does not usually move as fast as 1 m.p.h., the lowest speed that Tipsy 25 detects, but movements of his arms and legs exceed the speed limit. So they give a characteristic sound and warn the radar sentry that in the darkness somewhere two miles away, someone is crawling who presumably means no good...
...their purses, retail trade in the first six months jumped $7.5 billion to a new high of $102.5 billion. In the process, it gave a long-delayed boost to many an industry that earlier watched the parade of recovery go by. TV setmakers, for example, expected 1959 shipments to exceed 1958's 4.8 million by almost a million, as individual manufacturers' six-month sales gains ranged as high as 30% for Emerson. 50% for Sylvania...