Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Irving S. Olds, board chairman of United States Steel, stepped up to demand a steel price increase "greatly in excess of $6.25 a ton." (The Government had been willing to agree...
...parodies of popular songs. After that evening, due to Loesser's ballyhooing, Abe had little time for work. He was invited to more parties than he could attend. As soon as he arrived, he would be plied with drinks ("I think drinking is only good if done to excess," he says) and virtually chained to the piano for the four hours or so it takes to go through his repertory. Sample burlesque (on radio's staccato-phrased, sentimental Scriptster Norman Corwin...
Application was made for a portion of the nation's 100,000 units last December. They are used excess houses that had been constructed around such congested areas as Army camps and war plants, and are now being disassembled, moved, and re-erected at Government expense in localities where the need is most serious...
...must find foreign markets for excess production in many of our products; we must buy, as well as sell, goods and services abroad; we must be ready to make foreign loans and investments; we must aid in maintaining peace and world order. . . . Only in this way can we insure a maintenance of the standard of living in this country on a level comparable with what we have enjoyed in the past...
...more competition would Reynolds' big, bluff president Richard S. Reynolds give Alcoa? With Hurricane Creek, Reynolds now has a capacity of 1,755 million lbs. of alumina v. Alcoa's 2,100 million lbs. In production of virgin aluminum, Alcoa still outstrips Reynolds. But Reynolds has enough excess alumina capacity to make SPB feel that aluminum plants are no longer dependent on Alcoa...