Word: exceeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest club in World War II is production, the head on the club is surprise production-a total output which will exceed anything the enemy has reason to expect, in much less time than he would normally expect. Moral: why tell the Jap (as he was told last week) that the U.S. is upping its output of long-range bomber engines...
Canvassing will be completed today in an attempt to equal and exceed the quota. The employees have already donated more than they did to the Community Fund last year and if not for the absences to Washington, the Faculty would have broken past records also...
...over a year under all conditions. Its efficiency averages over 37%, reports Engineer Harold N. Hackett. It uses 1,300 fewer B.T.U. (fuel heat units) to produce a kilowatt-hour than any steam plant in historya saving of about 12%. "Future applications of the [mercury with steam] cycle may exceed 50% thermal efficiency," predicts Hackett...
Britons who get extra cigarets, food and candy from U.S. friends could not hope for much this year, either. According to British customs regulations, "unsolicited gifts, whether they include rationed foods or not, may be received from abroad by parcel post addressed to individuals: but no parcel may exceed five pounds gross weight or contain more than two pounds of any one foodstuff." Gift parcels must not be sent more often than is "reasonable" (interpreted generally as once a month). Parcels from the U.S. that don't conform to these regulations are confiscated and distributed to charity...
...suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved...