Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were other signs of continued boom. Retail sales in October were 6% higher than in September, and 1% above the level a year ago. Oil-company executives, meeting in Chicago, estimated that the industry's expansion next year will equal or exceed this year's $2.8 billion in capital outlays. And Government economists predicted construction will reach a whopping $34 billion in 1954, just a shade under this year's alltime high of $34.7 billion...
Perhaps the most serious objection to relying only on the cash budget is the way it counts social security money as income. At present, receipts exceed outlay. But as life expectancy in the U.S. increases, payments may exceed income. A failure to recognize this seems to ignore the Government's eventual obligation to pay. But the Government already uses this money for current expenses, putting Government bonds for the amount into the social security trust accounts. Since these bonds have to be paid off out of income, many economists argue that the Government is actually running social security...
...brief description of its F-100 "air superiority fighter," which has been the subject of well-informed gossip for more than a year. Named the Super-Sabre by its builder, North American Aviation Inc., it is described as "the U.S. Air Force's first operational jet fighter to exceed the speed of sound in level flight." This cautious wording is intended to head off protests from North American's competitors, especially Douglas Aircraft Co., whose F4D (built for the Navy, not the Air Force) is claimed to be supersonic...
...Tokyo boasts a bigger public-school enrollment-1,200,000-although New York's public and private school total is 1arger, and the physical and financial assets of the municipal system far exceed those of the Japanese capital. Other big city enrollments: Moscow, 630,000; Greater London, 418.000; Chicago...
...industry is using zinc at a record rate (an estimated 1,100,000 tons this year) and lead consumption is only a shade below the 1950 peak of 1,200,000 tons. But U.S. mines have not benefited; low-priced imports, up sharply in the last few years, exceed U.S. production (see chart...