Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Times's Los Angeles-based Western edition (circ. 90,000) and its Paris-based international edition (33,873.) published throughout the strike. Though the paper released no profit estimates for the Western edition, it admitted that "expenses continue to exceed revenues" on the two-year-old Paris venture...
Although the planners refrain from commenting on individual bids, they point out that most of the preliminary plans violate zoning regulations. The development proposed by Cambridge attorney Francis J. Roche exceeds the maximum residential density, and all the plans but Harvard's exceed the permissible gross floor area. In the estimates for parking space, the Board finds additional discrepancies: even Harvard, which makes the best showing, falls 215 per cent short of the number of spaces desired. And the Board concludes, pessimistically, that it may take twenty years to fill all the proposed offices, stores, and apartments...
...wealth is prodigious. He controls 15 companies-ranging from a cement combine to a paper and pulp plant-whose annual sales exceed $100 million, and his personal fortune is estimated to be at least $25 million. But Venezuela's courtly Eugenio Mendoza, 56, is more than his country's leading industrialist; he is also its leading philanthropist. Says he: "We businessmen always talk about the need to make dividends for our shareholders, but we must also create a dividend for the community...
...keeps declining year after year-but the number of Agriculture Department employees keeps right on growing. In the House of Representatives last year, Michigan Republican Robert Griffin jokingly offered an amendment to ensure that "the total number of employees in the Department of Agriculture shall at no time exceed the number of farmers in America." It lost-but only...
...more people whose incomes exceed $1,000,000 a year than at any time since the 1929 stock market crash. So revealed the Internal Revenue Service last week. Its 1960 statistics, the latest compiled, show that 306 Americans had an adjusted gross income of more than $1,000,000 v. 513 in 1929 (and a mere 20 in 1932). The bulk of the wealth is in New York City, which had 87 millionaires-in-one-year; Philadelphia had 59, Chicago 38, and San Francisco and Boston 25 each...