Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BUMPER CROPS will exceed earlier forecasts, says the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Despite acreage cutbacks, farmers are using so much fertilizer in an attempt to keep lagging farm income up that the total output of farm commodities will hit 112% of the 1947-49 average, breaking last year's record...
Rodger J. Winn '59, of the Freshman Intramural Athletic Council, announced last night that the council has established as its goal the participation of 800 different freshmen in the intramural program throughout the year. This figure would exceed last year's mark...
...soared on the news of the President's heart attack, in expectation of a possible return to Democratic high-price supports, dropped last week in the sharpest break since May 1954. One big reason was an unofficial estimate by the Journal of Commerce that the cotton crop would exceed Government figures; this touched off a reaction which sent cotton plunging $10 a bale for the maximum permissible drop, followed by eggs, corn, soybeans and wheat...
...import quota was originally set by a presidential Cabinet Committee in February; at that time it was ruled that imports should not exceed the level of 1954, when they accounted for 16.6% of total U.S. production. The big companies did not agree with the Cabinet ruling, but they insist that they have held the line. They argue that it is smaller companies that have pushed up imports of crude oil to nearly 15% above the 1954 level...
Last week the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a new, granary-bulging forecast of crop prospects for 1955: the harvest for all crops this year is expected to be 6% above last year's and to equal, if not exceed, the record yield of 1948. Bumper production is anticipated in corn (17% over 1954, and the second-largest crop in history), oats (8% higher than 1954), sorghum grains (up 30%), hay (up 5%), soybeans (up 23%), cotton (30% above the average yield), wheat (5% above the latest forecast) and peanuts (50% above last year...