Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Come December. Excess-profits taxes, earlier reduced from 1 00% to 65%, would! end entirely by December. More impor tant, the $17 billion total expenditure was 31% less than last year's, and 91% of it would be paid from revenue. The next budget might be even better, for more than 40% of this one goes to defense supplies, demobilization gratuities, war contract terminations and other non-recurring expenses...
...explanation: "The Boston Catholic laity are in leading strings to the clergy, and are impotent. In an excess of goodness, docility, almost infantilism, they respond to every dictum of the clergy. . . . They have no leaders, no official voice, no public opinion as a group, no forum for frank discussion...
Hogarth had an explanation of his own. In one of the neatest esthetic credos in English, he described what he was trying for: "variety without confusion, simplicity without nakedness, richness without tawdriness, distinctness without hardness, quantity without excess...
...about 7% of net sales (most large retail stores figure costs around 36%). Thus he could make money with a quick turnover and an average markup of 10% over wholesale prices. He bought as he sold-cheap. Dress manufacturers in need of money found Klein ready to buy excess stocks at cut prices. Many a $14 dress thus found its way to Klein's $7.95 racks. If it stayed there more than two weeks, it was marked down $1. If it was still there at the end of another two weeks, its price was cut again. Sometimes dresses...
...reorganization have made so much money during the war that they are actually solvent. Some examples: in four and a half years, the Cotton Belt (St.Louis-Southwestern) earned its annual interest charges 42 times and made about $150 a common share to boot; in 1944, the Missouri Pacific had excess profits of $46,380,000-larger than any other railroad system in the U.S. except the Santa Fe. Yet the Cotton Belt, Mopac and other roads with good wartime profit records continue in reorganization...