Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...growing West Coast's growing steel demands far exceed the limited capacity of the small West Coast steel plants. (U. S. Steel Corp. has three small plants in California with combined capacities of 441,500 tons, Bethlehem has three on the Coast, with a total capacity of 380,000 tons...
...difficult to define precisely the unique excellence of this book. It is primarily a collection of brief essays about the plays and poems, essays which never exceed fifteen pages in length. Mr. Van Doren deliberately excludes considerations of Shakespeare biography, Elizabethan drama and the like; the center of his preoccupation is always the peculiar interest of each play...
...assured of a very active second half year, which was all Wall Street needed to know. But July 1 copper inventories were still high (340,000 tons, 80,000 above the high inventoried end of 1937) and even in a good month, U. S. copper consumption does not often exceed 80,000 tons. If forward buying books July's total copper orders to 200,000 tons or better, four or even five months' additional supply at present rate of domestic consumption will be added to inventories...
Like most of his countrymen, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a stockmarket watcher rather than an economist. To him, as to most of the U. S., a rising market means that business is all right and a declining market is a sign of woe, fortelling that unemployment will again exceed its "normal" quota of 10,000,000. When the market is down the New Deal begins to look for new brands of unemployment reducers and market restorers. Last week, it was obviously twirling the dial in search of the right wavelength on which to broadcast a new offensive against renewed depression...
...major war Germany will need 15 to 20 million tons of oil a year. The entire annual yield of the nearby Rumanian fields, assuming Germany could and would quickly take Rumania through Hungary, is short of 7,000,-ooo tons and synthetic production in Germany can hardly exceed a million tons. Furthermore, number one truism of writers on military problems is that the next long war will be won by the nation with the greatest industrial potential behind the lines. The ability to mass-produce and to service guns, tanks, planes, ships and motors will, so the military theoreticians predict...