Word: surpassed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Singer Co. heard President Donald P. Kircher predict that on the basis of first-quarter sales of $250 million, up 10%, Singer this year for the first time is likely to join the corporate elite of 55 firms whose sales surpass $1 billion annually...
...result, over the last decade, the price of farm land has climbed 60% faster than farm income, thus confounding the economic axiom that the value of land depends on its profit potential. Farm prosperity-profits reached a 13-year high in 1965, and this year will surpass $15 billion-and the possibility of growing export crops under the Administration's "food for freedom" program also spur expansion...
...hillside homes. About 30 white and Oriental families have already bought in-most of them, according to Agent Edward W. Moose, "people who believe in interracial housing and feel the price is right." Shops, schools and recreation facilities will be added to service a population expected to surpass 3,500 by 1969. The goal: to transform Marin City from a microcosm of big-city racial woes into an integrated community befitting its idyllic setting. "If we can't do it here," says Byron Leydecker, chairman of the county supervisors, "we can't do it anywhere...
...Insects surpass mammals, as a matter of fact, in general biological efficiency...
...Brooke's views of the U.S. largely echo Lyndon Johnson's. He lists the three great domestic problems as poverty, civil rights and the plight of the cities. At the risk of being accused of me-tooism, he urges Republicans to devise remedies that surpass the Great Society's in both volume and efficacy...