Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sold; the big operators would profit at their expense. To win over the little fellows, California's seven largest producers! offered to form Co-operative Gas Conservation Association which, supported by $230,000 a year from each of the seven, would provide facilities for pooling and recycling excess gas in the large fields...
...Boeuf and Atchafalaya Rivers. These are two subtributaries of the Mississippi which run practically parallel to the course of the great river in Louisiana and Arkansas. The flood relief plan devised under General Jadwin and adopted by Congress proposed that these valleys shall be used to draw off excess waters in times of great floods...
...Moreover, Maine is the seventh largest producer of hydro-electric power in the U. S., third largest potential producer east of the Mississippi. Last week Maine voters were offered a referendum on a new law permitting the export, under supervision of the Public Utilities Commission, of power generated in excess of local consumption...
...than bear the delay. They also say that it would take so long to value tourists' purchases properly that it would be impossible to handle the large influx of tourists which occurs toward the end of every summer. About one-third of all returning tourists pay duty. How much excess duty they pay can only be conjectured?the guess of customs officials was $2,000,000 a year...
...population of the city of Watertown. 10.000 more than there are in the city of Binghamton and three times as many people as are to be found in the largest village of the State. Only 24 counties out of 63 in the whole State have a population in excess of the number of people that can be housed in this building...