Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the new rules, old book cards, hitherto renewed each term, are now void. New cards will be issued only to those veterans who have excess eligibility time which apply to tuition and books...
...there no hope? Yes, says Brown. For only $10 million, expeditions can be sent to the Antarctic to measure accurately the accumulation of ice. Then the dangerous excess can be removed by atomic blasting...
...death since Franklin Roosevelt's had moved the people-and the press-to such maudlin excess. Between the pumped-up sentimentality of the public mind and the morticianly manners of the public prints, it was impossible to decide which influenced the other more. The genuine tributes to flamboyant George Herman Ruth were drowned in a messy fog of tear-jerking pictures and prose...
...damper on the inflated market. The cost of borrowing would have to be much higher to be effective. As for the rediscount rise, its effect would only be psychological. Borrowings by member banks from the Federal Reserve Banks are relatively insignificant, at less than $300 million. With excess reserves of over $1 billion, member banks were not likely to raise the volume by much, nor feel any actual pinch because of the higher charges...
...session program a quick brush-off. To the surprise of no one, they refused to consider price control or rationing as inflation remedies, gleefully repeated the President's observation of ten months ago that "these are marks of a police state." Their answer to a request for an excess profits tax was a brusque no. Despite Candidate Tom Dewey's personal intervention, they refused to liberalize the provisions of the Displaced Persons bill. The one unarguable gain of the week was approval of the $65 million loan for building U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters...