Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half dispatch. The Times gave it Page-One, Column-One play: ALL FREEDOM FOUND ENDED IN ARGENTINA. At long last, Cortesi was mad because censors had "mangled" one of his dispatches, and "The time has come to say . . . that things have happened in Buenos Aires recently that exceed anything that this correspondent can remember in his 17 years' experience in Fascist Italy...
...grams (about 4½ ounces) of operating-room blood and serum. In less than 24 hours "two of the rats had eaten all of the blood and one had eaten 47 grams. When one considers that the average normal food intake of full-grown wild rats does not usually exceed 35 to 40 grams, the large intake of 139 grams indicates that the rats had a real craving for this fresh human blood...
Worse Than Italy. ". . . Things have happened in Buenos Aires recently that exceed anything that this correspondent can remember in his 17 years' experience in Fascist Italy. He has seen whole sections of the city occupied by the Army in full war kit; he has seen policemen directing traffic with revolvers in their hands...
...equip one tank. Next day four companies of the Third's ordnance mechanics, about 1,000 men, were set to work on scrapped treads and other material. Patton wanted duck bills. His order was typical: work any number of hours a day the job will take-not to exceed 24. Six days & nights later, the Third had duck bills on 250 tanks...
...expand the $200 million figure through Russian exports to other nations which, in turn, would export to the U.S. But the amount of U.S. steel, machine tools, electrical and transportation equipment, etc. that Russia can pay for by direct and indirect exports to the U.S. seemed hardly likely to exceed $1 billion a year...