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Word: excesses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more than seventy percent of current net income. The relative gain at the $500,000 level reaches almost thirty times the "relief" afforded the average laborer, even though the tax cut under the proposed bill falls from twenty percent to ten and a half percent for income in excess...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brass Tacks | 1/20/1947 | See Source »

Five of last Commencement's thirteen award recipients were honored because of their military service service not necessarily in excess of duty. One degree to the Chief of Staff, symbolizing the whole staff might have sufficed. Another five were honored for their direct connections with the University. Deserving as they undoubtedly were, their merits were largely intramural and might have been recognized in a less ostentatious manner. Of the remaining three, the more recent works of one, at least, could hardly earn him a greater reputation than that of a Reader's Digest hack writer, leading the observer of such...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "Them That Has, Gits" | 1/6/1947 | See Source »

...veterans in the College who have an excess over veteran's allowance on the term bill due December 10th should report before Monday, December 9th to Weld Hall, Room 16 if they wish to have the excess charge paid by the Veterans Administration...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Veterans' Term Bills | 12/5/1946 | See Source »

...words. Said he: "In this, the first full year of peace, our national income has been running about double that of 1939 [$4,570,000,000]. Our working force today is about 4,900,000, as against 3,800,000 in 1939. . . . Employment offices now report unfilled jobs in excess of the number seeking employment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Nothing to Worry About? | 12/2/1946 | See Source »

...first time since 1930, Canada's budget was in balance. The Dominion was taking in more than it was spending. Despite the summer's crippling strikes, Government revenue from income and excess profits taxes for the first seven months of the 1946-47 fiscal year (April 1 to March 31) was a thumping $157,000,000 ahead of estimates. In the same period, Government expenses were about $200,000,000 lower than anticipated. Surplus to date...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: THE DOMINION: Back in the Black | 11/25/1946 | See Source »

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