Word: exceed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brighter side, department-store sales last week moved 2% ahead of the same week of 1957. The National Retail Merchants Association polled the top men in 2,000 department and chain stores, reported that 72% look for 1958 profits to equal or exceed last year's record. The Commerce Department, in its annual survey of the nation's major industries, found "moderate optimism." Though it conceded that production declines are in store for autos, steel, machine tools and railway cars, it predicted that some of 1957's softer industries will snap back. Said the report: lumbermen should...
...executives polled by Dun & Bradstreet snorted bullishly over 1958 prospects: 91% expected that their sales would exceed or equal 1957; eight out of ten thought profits would be better or at least as good; only 1% expected to cut production. In Hollywood, Fla. 1,050 conventioneers at the Investment Bankers Association predicted that easier money will bolster the slump in capital investments, that record personal incomes will lift consumer buying to new peaks, that low inventories will be rebuilt and spur manufacturing. To cool down recession talk, the New York Federal Reserve Bank made one of its rare public predictions...
Although the Council has not yet set a goal for the drive, it hopes to exceed last year's total...
...actual dollars and cents, the total obligations of the U.S. already exceed the $275 billion debt limit, though technically the Treasury's books still show a $1.7 billion leeway. The Federal National Mortgage Association and the Agriculture Department have issued $2.8 billion in notes and debentures held by banks and private investors. These do not show up as part of the "national debt," though they are Government obligations...
...soberly situated in the middle 20th century, Vermont has begun to worry about a new flood of failings in the grim green mountains. Last year's suicide total (57) was amongst the highest per capita in the U.S. And 1957's uncompleted total may well exceed...