Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Excess allowances can be carried over from one term to another only within a given school year. Veterans entering for the first time under Public Law 346 this summer will receive a total tuition allowance of $437.50 for this school year terminating at the end of the Fall Term, and if they do not use all the tuition allowances within that time, they forfeit the difference. A similar procedure is followed by those under Public...
...veteran's tuition expenses run over the normal allowance of $500.00, he can have those excess expenses paid by the government. This figure is subtracted from his total time allowance at the rate of one day for every $2.10 used over the normal allowance...
...Atomic Big Three, only Canada has "an excess over its own requirements of uranium." Nevertheless, 20 Government prospecting parties are currently out in the bleak Northwest Territories hunting for more...
...grain trader, Cargill, Inc., let out a yowl. Cargill, famed for cornering corn in 1937, had again bought heavily in corn, anticipating the OPA action. Now, with six million bushels on hand, it stood to lose "in excess of $1 million" if it could not sell grain on its futures contracts at the new ceilings. Cargill sued the Board of Trade for treble damages...
...Kaiser had to buy it from Foley. Ed Foley, who knew he had a good thing, finally forced Kaiser to pay "in excess of $1,000,000" for the lease...