Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many a company, the V-E day cutbacks had come too late to affect quarterly earnings seriously. For others, excess profits taxes had been a cushion against the drop in gross sales. In top brackets, taxes drop as fast as income, thus help keep earnings steady...
Transport. The rail profits, which began to slip in 1943 when the roads moved into the excess-profits brackets, were still going slowly down. The Interstate Commerce Commission reported that in the first five months profits of all Class I roads were down to $439,677,038 from...
Scott Fitzgerald was barely 20, fresh from Princeton and a brief spell in uniform, when he saw "the unexpended nervous energy of the war years exploded [into] an age of miracles ... an age of art ... an age of excess." Suddenly, spontaneously, the Jazz Age had begun. "Life was like the race in Alice in Wonderland, there was a prize for everyone...
...Equipment and resources to produce annually 25 million tons of iron and steel, far in excess of peacetime needs, and a capacity to make 250,000 tons of aluminum a year...
Even brilliant epileptics, however, are haunted by fear of fits in public, or of the severe injuries which fits may bring about. In the British Medical Journal Dr. Gerald Caplan suggests a possible way to banish their worries. His idea: to drain off the epileptic's excess electrical energy by giving him an artificial fit "under controlled conditions of time & place" with the electric shock treatment used in insanity...