Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...district and is chiefly responsible for the present overproduction. If the Seminole wells could be shut off for a few days or if each well would restrict itself to produce, oil men estimate, only 200 barrels a day for a time, then consumers would use up the present excess. After a fortnight, supply should satisfy demand very evenly. It is Emissary Ray H. Collins' job to persuade Seminole Pool men to suck oil in unison, moderately...
...purchased her own freedom, lacked money to do as much for "Pinky." But in 1860 the grandmother thought of appealing to Henry Ward Beecher, already famed as an anti-slavery speaker. Learning that "Pinky's" owner valued her at $900, Beecher staged the "auction," raised $1,100 in excess of the amount needed. One of his hearers, Authoress Rose Terry, put a ring in the collection plate. Dramatic, Dr. Beecher slipped the ring on Pinky's finger, cried: "With this ring I thee wed - to freedom!" After her freedom had been purchased, "Pinky" went to live with...
...great quarreling point, because $7,000 profit is only 5% of $140,000, although 7% of $100,000. In one case the railroad earns less than it is permitted (6%) profit, in the other it makes more but has to donate to the Government $500 (half of its excess $1,000). Last year all the U. S. railroads earned 5.23% on the amount of money it would have taken to have constructed them anew (according to the Committee of Public Relations of the Eastern Railroads). Railroads prefer the larger, replacement values upon which to base transportation rates, and so, profits...
...Fallon Railway, a 21-mile Illinois road controlled by the Adolphus Busch (breweries) estate, to pay into the U. S. Treasury within 90 days $226,878. This is one-half of the $453,756 which the I. C. C. says that the road earned from 1921 to 1924, in excess of 6% of its 1914 valuation. It is a trivial sum. But the decision carried a threat of possible loss in values to all the U. S. railroads of eleven billion dollars...
...notable excess," said Premier-Finance Minister Raymond Poincaré, before the Chamber of Deputies, "a really notable excess of revenue over expenditures, Messieurs, has been achieved under my direction for the first time since the War. When I assembled my Cabinet (TIME, Aug. 2), we were forced to obtain credits of 930,000,000 francs [$179,490,000] from large concerns, but every centime has now been repaid and 7,500,000,000 francs [$1,447,500,000] to our credit in the Bank of France. [Applause.] I repeat, Messieurs les Deputés 'a notable excess...