Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Retention of surtaxes on swollen incomes; restoration of the tax on excess profits, on stock dividends, profits undistributed to evade estates and taxes; rapidly progressive taxes on large estates and inheritances and repeal of excessive tariff duties, especially on trust-controlled necessities ot life, and of nuisance taxes on consumption, to relieve the people of the present unjust burden of taxation and compel those who profited by the War to pay their share ot the War costs and to provide the funds for adjusted compensation solemnly pledged to the veterans ot the World...
...Excess of arrivals over departures...
...Passed a bill to permit certain immigrants now in this country in excess of quota to remain here...
...chamber. With a critical smile he watched the progress of legislation, and then, when the moment came, stepped forward with an impassioned speech about the starving women and children of Germany. Stepping into the aisle, gesticulating fiercely, he paced about. Half a dozen times his voice broke with an excess of emotion. When he had done he dropped into his seat exhausted, and several Democrats rushed across to congratulate...
Last year the unexpectedly large production of crude petroleum brought on a crisis in the oil industry by smashing the high prices for crude oil and even for its refined products. Large companies, however, stocked the excess crude oil product, and refineries greatly increased their stocks of gasoline. This policy seemed fairly safe at the time, because of automobile makers' confident predictions of a 5,000,000 car year in 1924 and a consequent heavy increase in gasoline consumption...