Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Business competition offers experience in making contacts with business men, writing advertising copy, gaining experience in the circulation end of the paper, and generally running the business affairs of a concern that annually balances its books at a figure in excess...
Appearing before the Securities & Exchange Commission last week for hearings on a recapitalization plan, International Paper & Power's treasurer revealed that 1936 earnings were about $5,000,000. He estimated that the 1937 figure "would run in excess of $9,000,000." For I. P. & P. these unaccustomed profits made recapitalization almost a necessity. At the year end the company had an accumulated deficit of some $20,000,000, precluding payment of dividends until the deficit is in some way made up. Yet if the company pays no dividends it will suffer the full penalty of the undistributed profits...
Some hospitals, notably State insane asylums, are overcrowded. Of 228 mental hospitals that replied to the committee's inquiry 135 reported excess of patients over normal capacity. In 74 the crowding was more than 15% beyond the rating. Four mental hospitals contained more than 50% excess patients. General hospitals complain of their empty beds, which last year totaled 35.7% of capacity. Some of these vacancies constitute a kind of insurance against over-crowding during epidemics, fires, flood, earthquakes. But many, argued one contributor to last week's A. M. A. Journal, are due to a zest to build...
...ruble operatic experiment whose spade work had been done not in the communist U. S. S. R. but in the capitalist U. S. When the performance, an extraordinary second act of Carmen, was over, the Fine Arts officials beamed and congratulated Conductor Vladimir Shavitch for reducing opera's excess baggage, putting it within the reach of the masses. For in place of a cumbersome chorus and orchestra, Conductor Shavitch used sound-film. When the Toreador Song rang out powerfully, only 16 were singing it from the stage. In celluloid, the Moscow Grand Opera Chorus made them sound like...
...larger scale than any other; and secondly, because I believe that the habits of youth there, whether from the discipline of the school, or the greater attention of the people generally to morals and a more regular course of life, are less prone to dissipation and excess than they are at the colleges south of it, it may be asked, if this was my opinion, why I did not send him there? The answer is as short as to me it was weighty; being the only male in his line, and knowing (although it would have been submitted to) that...