Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...squarely on the network which tolerates it as on the sponsor. CBS claims it is not unusual for a show to be dropped by a commercial sponsor. This comes from a network whose president not many months ago brandished an accusing finger at American broadcasters for permitting advertising excesses and thereby contributing to "bad radio." Yet, I'affaire Shirer--the most dangerous form of advertising excess--is excused in an offhand manner by that same radio chain...
...Robert A. Taft's Labor Committee to speak his piece on labor legislation. While his onetime protege Joe Ball glowered at him across the table, Stassen declared that the closed-shop ban and other anti-labor provisions of Ball's four labor bills would give so much "excess power" to capital that labor would be back to the bedrock days of the 19203, and the U.S. economy with it. Stassen's key suggestion: a strike should be called only if authorized by a secret ballot taken after all negotiations had failed. Snapped Ohio's Taft...
...vigorous doctoring of texts (i.e., cutting, rearranging, shearing off excess dialect) Editor Aswell has adapted them for what he calls "modern reading." His conception of humor is broad enough to embrace Irving, Poe and Edward Everett, but he also includes the best of the true-blue local colorists, nateral-born liars and ringtailed roarers. Among them...
...Excess Profit. In Portland, Ore., City Commissioner Kenneth Cooper bemoaned the nickel bonus added to his $5,000 salary, complained that it boosted him into a higher income-tax bracket...
...flying an average of 81.8 hours a month, senior pilots on overseas runs will be paid from $925 to $1,100 a month, depending on the number of years of service, plus an additional $13.50 an hour for flying in excess of the average. For copilots on these runs: $290 to $520, with an extra $50 a month for those qualified as navigators...