Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...added if the Federal liquor tax is raised to $2 a gallon (see p. 15), nor about $150,000,000 which may be raised by plugging holes in the income tax law, nor any prospective War debt payments. In spite of these omissions, 1934 revenue was estimated to exceed ordinary expenses plus AAA's half billion by $215,000,000. And 1935 revenue was estimated to exceed ordinary expenses plus AAA's three-quarter billion...
...outlay of 1934, might have announced a deficit not of $7,309,000,000 but of $3,339,000,000. Then he might have told Congress in sober truth: "Last summer we planned to run into debt for $3,300,000,000 of emergency expenditures. We expect to exceed this amount by only $39,000,000. For fiscal 1935 our budget, including all emergency expenditures now foreseen, is estimated to balance with a surplus of $14,000,000. Some unforeseen expenditures may be required, but we hope to keep them as small as possible. Certainly the deficit for 1935 will...
...wagering in the letter I refer to above makes me laff, as if the accomplishments of the President of this country were widely known and thoroughly realized, the betting in his favor would probably exceed a million...
...fleets of the Cunard and White Star Lines will become an accomplished fact at an early date. It is the intention of the Government in that event shortly to lay before the House proposals for furnishing the necessary financial facilities for completion of the new Cunard liner" -scheduled to exceed the French liner Normandie as "largest and fastest liner in the world" (TIME, Nov. 7, 1932). ¶Adjourned over the holidays at 1:30 p. m. after a furious round-the-clock session which began the afternoon before. Battling every clause of the Government's bill to saddle...
...Last week the Commodity Exchange announced that there are 81,000,000 oz. in its seven licensed warehouses (safe deposit companies). Another 40,000,000 or 50,000,000 oz., it was estimated, was in other banks or in hoarding. Silvermen were alarmed lest the mounting pile exceed the city's available storage capacity...