Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Excess of expenses over receipts during 26 months of Government operation...
...avowed aim of the merger has been stated to be a more economical use of refining facilities, now about 50% in excess of what is needed. When Willet & Gray inquired Attorney General Stone's opinion, however, the latter official announced his opposition to the merger, on the basis that competitive conditions in the industry had not changed since 1922, when the decree was entered...
Then, undoubtedly unconscious of the one and a half million odd dollars net profit which Mr. Samuel S. Childs is able yearly to distribute to his common stockholders, the Bulletin suggested that "if Childs proposes to charge the people twice what food is worth, some of the excess profits should go to the people instead of being devoted to Coney Island palaces...
...greatest international enemies of Soviet Russia are the communists in foreign countries. In an excess of zeal they consistently do their bit to block Russia's efforts to reestablish herself among nations...
...Establishment of a central board to which all countries should furnish estimates of their opium requirements and, at the same time, guarantee to prohibit excess importations...