Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...These regular activities include interest on the public debt, major public works, operations of the Civilian Conservation Corps, and Agricultural Benefit payments, but do not include strictly Work Relief items. I expect to pay for these regular activities with estimated receipts of $5,654,000,000, leaving an excess of receipts of $585,000,000. . . . The item for relief remains. Without that item the budget is in balance." Last year and the year before Franklin Roosevelt also announced that the Government's revenues were in excess of its ordinary expenses. More conservative in his bookkeeping this year and with...
...seemed natural to Dr. Millikan that the cosmic rays were light rays or photons of enormously high frequency and short wave length. He concluded that they were the by-products of atom-building in interstellar space; that when light-weight atoms suddenly combined to form heavier ones, a slight excess of matter-like bricklayer's mortar scraped from the wall-was turned into high-frequency light according to the Einstein equation. To him this was a peculiarly satisfying interpretation as it bespoke "the Creator still...
...notably in the Residential field, turned sharply upward. Volume of 1935 retail trade was estimated to have been as high as $33,000,000,000-18% above 1934. Industries with new all-time records included power, shoes, gasoline, electric refrigerators, Diesel engines, cigarets, oil burners, plate glass, rayon, airlines. Excess bank reserves climbed $1,000,000,000, and U. S. gold stocks increased from $8,200,000,000 to nearly $10,000,000,000. Capital markets reopened; the Blue Eagle was killed; business confidence picked up almost as much as business, and further recovery was unanimously predicted for 1936. Upon...
Time came to transport the thousands of record sheets, one for each Newburyport citizen, to the University of Chicago. The task was entrusted to the Business School, which, properly impressed by Peabody with the value of these records, promptly insured the whole lot for considerably in excess of $25,000. In turn, properly impressed, the Railway Express Company appeared at Peabody's door and loaded the records in an armored car manned with several beholstered guards...
...group of happy youngsters celebrated the other night an event. What the event was is neither pertinent nor known. The point is that their rejoicing was along the traditional lines; all hard feelings were purged away with alcohol, that foremost disinfectant. Oh, nothing in excess, mind you; the precepts recently laid down by the Crimson were strictly observed...