Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fortunately . . . there is room in the existing price structure for business as a whole to grant increases in wage rates"-thanks to such factors as industry's increased productivity and repeal of the excess-profits...
...written it but because Britain was at peace. Hugh Dalton achieved a miracle: he pleased almost everybody. To Britons, his budget brought a 10% cut in the standard income-tax rate, more deductions for wives, the abolition of a 33 1/3% tax on household goods. For business, the excess-profits...
...thus accidentally put two & two together. It was already known that ulcer patients need protein to use up their excess stomach acids and that many ulcer patients are low in blood protein, which contributes to their run-down condition...
Spare Part. In Rio de Janeiro, an air line passenger who insisted on carrying his artificial leg instead of wearing it had to pay excess-baggage charges...
...excess-profits tax is a war measure which . . . in this period of reconstruction . . . is becoming a barrier to expanding employment." Therefore, to encourage greater production and full employment: 1) the 100% excess-profits tax would be reduced to 60% for all, and 2) removed entirely for some 12,000 of the smaller firms (those making less than $15,000 in excess profits...