Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...excess profits tax of 10% on excess profits not greater than 20% of the invested capital; of 75% on excess profits greater than 20% of the invested capital...
...Restoration of excess profits taxes...
...more than offset by the unprecedentedly low birthrate of 20.4 per 1,000 living. The total births (780,124) were fewer than in any year, with the exception of the war years, since 1869, when England had but 22,000,000 population. Male births are still greatly in excess of female, the ratio being...
Farmers' receipts from corn, oats, barley, buckwheat, flaxseed, potatoes, hay (tame and wild), tobacco, cotton and cottonseed, sugar beets, maple sugar, sorghum, peanuts, beans, onions, cabbage, hops, apples and oranges were all in excess of the crop values of last year. The current year, however, provided less crops than 1922 in wheat, rye, rice, clover seed, grain sorghums, broom corn, cranberries, peaches and pears...
...believe Congress should realize that 80% of the members of the House and 60% of the Senate are paid now a sum in excess of what the service rendered by them to the people is worth...