Word: exceeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chairman of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee on the armed services, he might have expected a soft answer, but instead he drew a crisp refusal: ". . . The services do not have aircraft to spare for trips of this sort," wrote Johnson. "The cost . . . for such a special flight easily can exceed $25,000." At those prices, Johnson suggested, it would be cheaper to use commercial airlines...
...other cities, begin catering to 16 U.S. airlines. In San Antonio this week, he opens his newest airport restaurant, serving such Dobbs delicacies as rainbow trout cooked in almond sauce, and baked potatoes kept hot in metal foil. This year Jimmy Dobbs, 55, expects his airport restaurant gross to exceed...
...best symbolized labor's posture in midsummer 1949 was C.I.O. President Phil Murray. As anxious as any labor leader to get what he could for his steelworkers, Murray was in no mood for a strike at this time. After all, steel production was already beginning to exceed demands. The solution he found last week was one that would probably become familiar: turn everything over to labor's good friend, the President. Harry Truman, unable to deliver on his promise to repeal Taft-Hartley, was anxious to be helpful in every...
...segment of the market, they must inevitably depreciate when the market as a whole is going down. Thus, most investment companies will be just as healthy, in the long run, as the total U.S. economy. Their biggest virtue is that they are giving more & more small investors (stockholders now exceed 1,000,000) a widespread stake in that economy...
...floors above) closed in between the defense and Judge Medina, between the defense and the spectators. Said Judge Medina to Gates: "I now adjudge you guilty of a willful and deliberate contempt . . . You are to be remanded until you have purged yourself of contempt for a period not to exceed 30 days." That meant that, instead of being free on bail, Gates would be lodged in jail after each day's session...