Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...acid suggestion for the Attorney General: "If Clark looks around suddenly at a Cabinet meeting, he is likely to find a culprit or two within arm's length. Two fundamental errors of the Truman Administration contributed to the price spiral. One was the repeal of the excess-profits tax. The other was . . . the encouragement of labor in demanding additional...
...even so all the wartime bigwigs would not hold onto their brass. Still in the process of weeding out the excess stars, the Army (including its air arm) last week had 500 generals on the rolls, the Navy 400 admirals...
...extraordinary excess of U.S. exports over imports, said President Truman in his midyear economic report to Congress, is one of the temporary props under the U.S. economic system. Last week, the Department of Commerce released figures showing that the prop had begun to buckle. Since the war's end, exports had been steadily increasing until they reached a rate of $17 billion a year. But in June they suddenly sagged 13%, the first big postwar decrease...
...been the same. While 1½ million died of famine, landowners and food dealers, Moslem and Hindu alike, had reaped profits of 1½ billion rupees. "Every death in the famine," estimated the Woodhead Famine Enquiry Commission two years ago, "was balanced by roughly a thousand rupees of excess profit." The economic grievance of peasants against landlords and profiteers became a religious fight...
...played with notable intensity by Marta Mitrovich) and a crooked art dealer (well played by Steven Geray) try to blackmail her. Her efforts to keep the truth from her husband bring on other complications and the whole business becomes a court-and-headline scandal. Battling their way through the excess plot like machete-swinging explorers of the Mato Grosso, Mr. Scott and Miss Sheridan express the emotions that might be expected of them; acidulous Eve Arden and earnest Divorce Lawyer Lew Ayres finally persuade them to give their marriage another...