Word: exceeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...students had arrived by stagecoach, farm wagon and shanks' mare. Board, reported the chancellor, "need not exceed 80? per week." They ate mostly bread and milk, an occasional fish from Lake Mendota, and, as a "rare treat," roast potatoes. A room in North Hall, the dormitory "on the hill," cost $5 a term; furniture "new from the store," another $8. Students had to draw and fetch their own water from the university well, chop down campus trees for firewood, and raid nearby farms for straw for their mattresses. Daily chapel was compulsory; so were six hours of daily attendance...
...would reach 3,649,510,000 bushels-82 million more than was estimated a month ago, 320 million more than the first forecast this year. 12% more than the record crop of 1946. Improvements in other crops in dicated that this year's total farm production would also exceed the 1946 high by a barnbusting...
...Instead," the report goes on, "we examined the sources of those funds." On the basis of this examination the Committee recommended that additional special fees beyond the $15 added to every student's term bill be eliminated, since those fees "did not exceed 4.9 percent of the income," and were a major source of complaint...
Retail Record. U.S. retail sales are running at an annual rate of $127 billion, almost 12% higher than 1947, the National Industrial Conference Board reported. If the rate is maintained, said N.I.C.B., 1948 sales will exceed 1929-the prewar peak-by more than 250%, while prices are only 40% higher than...
...molten steel. He fired a sizzling telegram to Larson protesting his "clandestine negotiations" as contrary to "good morals." White claimed that, including tonnage royalties, his offer would have netted the Government $1,275,000 compared with $1,248,000 from Kaiser. (WAA said Kaiser's rental would exceed $1,500,000.) White also wired 403 of his foundry customers that Republic was "going out of the pig iron business." By week's end, the frightened foundries were deluging WAA with protests...