Word: excesses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Textile Merger. Consolidation of Frederick Vietor & Achelis with Peierls, Buhler & Co., Inc., leading textile financing firms, was last week announced by Commercial Investment Trust Corp., which has acquired control of both organizations. Resources of the combined firms total $35,000,000; annual sales are in excess...
...wire enclosures, their noses twitching with annoyance, their legs dragging in bewildered apathy. The guinea pigs dozed or squeaked with fury. The fowl alone presented a pleasing appearance. Their bright plumes flashed and glittered; their stupid, shining eyes were red with pride or excitement as they strutted, with an excess of vigor, around their tiny hutches. The air, dark with smoke, lacking the dusty sweetness of a barnyard, was filled with the shrill, silly clamor of their voices. Roosters, supercharged with masculinity, cried loudly and beat their wings against bars which were barely sufficient to prohibit a shocking orgy...
Foreign Trade: "German foreign trade has markedly progressed toward stability. The margin of excess imports over exports narrowed in the past year, and in September both attained a substantial equilibrium for the first time since 1926. This is partly due to the decline of imports, but exports reached the largest dimensions since 1924. Exports and imports came to an equilibrium in September at a level of approximately 1,100,000,000 marks as compared with...
Shortly afterward the Deputies rebounded from this excess of self-denial, voted an increase in the salaries of members of Parliament from 49,000 to 60,000 francs...
...almost too well done. We become satiated with an excess of splendor. Let these ladies see to their makeup. . . . How it is to be cut down I cannot imagine. ... I ... I have seen ... I ... I ..." -St. John Ervine, in the World...