Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chance was that one or two Pacific Coast shipowners might sell their entire fleets. Half of the Coast's supply of excess tonnage (some 30 freighters) has been sold since war began. Of those ships only about twelve have not yet received the Maritime Commission's blessing...
...Grace Rardin Eames Doherty, Oilman Henry L. Doherty left his entire fortune, "substantially in excess of $1,000,000" (1929 estimate: $100,000,000). To 21-year-old Annie Laurine MacDonald Dodge, onetime telephone operator, daughter of a Canadian tugboat captain and widow of Automobile Heir Daniel Dodge, who drowned on their honeymoon, a Detroit probate court judge awarded $1,250,000. Two of the dead man's sisters, horsy Isabel Dodge Sloane and Winifred Dodge Seyburn (who inherited nothing), let it be known they would not let Annie get away with...
...reported their year-end earnings. No news were their latest over-all statistics: that they had more deposits than ever before ($42,022,000,000 in Federal Reserve member banks, up $4,596,000,000); that due to the inflow of war-scared gold from Europe they had record excess reserves ($5,200,000,000, up $2,128,000,000); that they had a record amount of idle cash (almost $6,000,000,000, up over $2,000,000,000).* But a striking fact was that in spite of this torpor, more than one bank succeeded in improving its profits...
...supercharging of the thyroid gland (hyperthyroidism); 3) diabetes. In hyperthyroidism, bodily functions are stepped up, and food is rapidly consumed in a roaring fire of metabolism. After meals, sugars (including digested starches) pile up in the bloodstream. Some of the sugars are converted into furious nervous energy. The excess spills over into the urine, is quickly excreted. Sufferers from hyperthyroidism are spare and undernourished, for their food is so quickly burned up that their body tissues receive little nourishment...
Also a disease of metabolism, diabetes is an inability of the body to use sugars. Diabetics can absorb sugar into their bloodstream, but unlike hyperthyroid patients, they cannot burn it up. The sugars merely "stagnate" in the blood until they pass into the urine. A physician who finds an excess amount of sugar in his patient's urine may assume that he is suffering from both hyperthyroidism and diabetes. But the diseases need opposite treatments. Diabetics, who cannot make use of the sugars they already have, must be deprived of carbohydrates; hyperthyroids, who burn up their sugars too rapidly...