Word: exceeded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...research center to discover more uses for boron. To make sure that he can provide the borax, he planned the present expansion so that production can easily be stepped up another 25% to 50% for only $4,000,000 or $5,000,000, should the demand exceed even his sanguine expectations...
...experts had given him, of overtaking the U.S. by 1975, were too pessimistic. Their arithmetic was O.K., but to wait that long would be to "let the ideologists of the capitalist world go on prattling for too long a time. Let the comrade economists blush. Sometimes man must exceed his own strength by making a sudden spurt...
...auto industry, which is still drawing heavily on its steel inventories. Last week, Henry Ford noted that Ford automobile sales were up 14%, and the company will gross a record $3 billion in the first half. He predicted that "industry new-car sales for 1957 should equal or exceed slightly the 5,800,000 sold in 1956"-well below the 6,500,000 figure originally predicted by the industry, and later dropped to 6,000,000. General Motors' President Harlow S. Curtice was even blunter. Sales in 1957 should match 1956, he said, but the year "has not measured...
...doing so he must not exceed fixed quotas of certain categories of students--among them academic standing, field of concentration, and private or public school background...
...were far outnumbered by those that showed profits still on the upgrade. The profit squeeze did show up in the sense that earnings often failed to keep pace with the increase in sales. But overall corporate profits for 1957's first quarter were expected to tie, or even exceed, the $18.8 billion profit total reported in 1956's first quarter. Yet such is the psychology of the boom that many businessmen, accustomed to record after record, wanted nothing less than a zoom on top of the boom...