Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Detroit took a look ahead, agreed that the industry will have another bumper-to-bumper crop, but disagreed-to the tune of about 700,000 cars-about just how good the year will be. Cautious but optimistic, General Motors Chairman Frederic Donner predicted that 1965 sales "could well exceed the long-term trend estimate of 7,800,000 cars and approximate the levels reached in 1964." Chrysler President Lynn Townsend said flatly that "the industry is now in the process of putting two 8,000,000-car years back to back," estimated that 8,100,000 cars will be sold...
...Burns Harbor installation, where steel-plate production is scheduled to begin this month. Jones & Laughlin is tripling the size of its Hammond mill, and National is turning out flat rolled steel from its new mill at Portage. When all the new facilities are completed, Midwest steel capacity may exceed consumption by as much as 30%. Says a Pittsburgh steel executive: "I don't know who is going to hurt whom, but it is going to be one helluva scramble...
...seaborne secret was documented recently when skindivers of the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries hung on the mouth of a big submerged trawl and took movies of fish as they were caught. The net moved through the water as slowly as 2 m.p.h., a pace that most fish can exceed with ease. But the skindivers learned that, fast as fish are, most of them are too lazy to take evasive measures. They swim languidly for a while to keep ahead of the net, but eventually they tire and drift back into its maw. After that, they are stuffed into...
...Hickory announces: "Our competitor is a nice fellow-smart too-so let him figure his own way." One reason for Du Pont's anxiety: computers that it rented from the Pentagon to calculate potential markets and profits fed back the prediction that world demand for shoes will exceed the supply of hides by as much...
According to the report, all the House Committee chairmen said they would be "willing to make up the revenue which might be lost by Saturday football dances by raising House card prices," because the amount saved by students through entertaining in their rooms would exceed the extra card cost...