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warshawlaw1. You are all assuming a monolithic printing. I know for a fact that Exhibit cards were replaced during print runs with other cards. Some short prints may result when the manufacturer pulls a card and replaces it.
2. Since there are no uncut sheets, you are also assuming that a sheet = a set. It may not be so. I've seen miscuts from some T sets from the era and they show players lined up top to bottom or side to side (for example, the two-named cards in T206 with the same names showing). It may be that some cards were duplicated on the sheets.
3. Far be it from a business to stoop so low as to do this, but perhaps certain cards were shorted in order to keep the tykes coughing up their allowances on more candy chasing the sets...