Word: exceeds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...industry knew that the plan, if approved by the Department of Justice (which must waive prosecution under the Sherman Antitrust Act on such an industry agreement), would be only a stopgap. The shortage will soon get worse. The enormous demand for oil this year is expected to exceed the 1945 wartime peak by some 14%. Among the reasons: over 90% of the locomotives now on order are oil-burning; oil-burners are being installed in homes at a record clip, and farmers are mechanizing their farms at a record rate. Since 1938 U.S. per capita oil consumption has increased...
...questioned the size of the appropriation. In the first 15 months, said Hoover, U.S. grants for food and other goods "essential to maintain life" should not exceed $3 billion, should include relief for China, Korea and Japan as well as Europe. Steel and capital goods should be shipped only on a straight loan basis. No money should be given for purchases in other nations; Latin American nations, for instance, should grant their own credits to Europe...
...United Hospital Fund† and former director of the New York Blue Cross. Blue Cross membership increased 15% last year; on that basis, Larsen said, it would take only eight years to reach 100,000,000 members; at Blue Shield's present rate of growth, membership would exceed 30,000,000 in three years...
Candidates for the contest must file applications with Theodore Spencer, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, before February 27 at Warren House, giving the name of the selection which will be offered. Declamations may be taken from English, Latin, or Greek prose or poetry, and may not exceed seven minutes. The judges' decision will be taken from English, Latin, or Greek ject matter, Spencer said...
...having performed a stage play," but it was not until the 1760s that the situation began to get out of control, thereby necessitating the Corporation's severe pronouncement of 1762. Productions such as Addison's "Cato" took place in 1758, but care was taken that the drama did not exceed the limits of propriety. In 1765, a cryptic diary notation reads "Scholars punished at College for acting over the great and last day in a very shocking manner, personating the Devil...