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Word: exceed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...council recently received a tabulation of statistics concerning the numbers of foreign students attending American colleges. More than 10,000 students, from 101 countries and dependencies, are studying in American institutions of higher learning. If preparatory and high schools were included in the survey, the total number would exceed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GRIFFITH TO SPEAK FOR INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL | 12/18/1929 | See Source »

...Dairy Products, Inc., organized last March, operating in Florida, South Carolina, Alabama, Georgia. Last week the Penney herds expanded westward when Foremost merged with Southwest Dairy Products Co., which serves 120,000 square miles in the states of Texas, Louisiana. Arkansas. Annual sales volume of the new company will exceed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Deals: Dec. 9, 1929 | 12/9/1929 | See Source »

...their trade, might become an even greater, more potent unit. From New Orleans, chief banana port, came rumors that U. F. C. had bought the Cuyamel Fruit Co., second in the field, operating eleven ships, large landowners in Honduras and Nicaragua. Combined assets of the two companies would exceed $250,000,000. Independent still would be the Standard Fruit and Steamship Corp., founded and largely owned by the Brothers Vaccaro of New Orleans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Fruit Trouble | 11/25/1929 | See Source »

...students have not registered their cars because they think it costs $60 or $70 for the remainder of the year. This is not so. For the few weeks left in 1929, the total cost of insurance would be approximately $10, while the price of license plates alone does not exceed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Department Shows Sudden Activity in Tagging Erring Drivers--Out-of-State Licenses Frowned Upon in Campaign | 11/12/1929 | See Source »

Most famed of the banks which Mr. Giannini's Transamerica controls are California's Bank of Italy, Manhattan's Bank of America. Total assets of Transamerica exceed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Branch Banking | 11/11/1929 | See Source »

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