Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army Air Forces and, on a larger scale, the Surplus Property Board, have offered to send obsolete and excess equipment to any non-profit school that will pay the transportation costs. So far enthusiastic school heads have asked for almost $20,000,000 worth...
What is an alcoholic? "The individual who uses alcohol to excess harmful to him in any way," say the doctors. How does an alcoholic get that way? In childhood...
...must get licenses to make almost anything; it must find manpower, which will be short till the Japanese war is over; and its products will come under rigid price control. Further, it must be prepared to pay the British income tax, currently 50% of net profits, along with an excess-profits tax (100% for an established company, 90-92% for a new company). There is also a personal surtax "at heavy graduated rates" for executives...
...would improve their physiques and general beauty by teaching them proper posture and a graceful gait. . . . Besides, by divesting them of excess and peculiarly localized fatty deposits, it would enable them to wear pants without creating a repellent spectacle. Dressing all women in uniform would finally convince men that in truth 'women are all alike' and that consequently there is no hurry about grabbing any one of them for a life partner...
...family of four from all taxes on incomes up to $2,750. But it also proposes to raise $12 billion (about ten times prewar) from the individual income tax-which would mean that tax rates in upper brackets could be reduced very little. It proposes to abolish the excess-profits tax postwar, and provide tax relief for new and small business, but still to raise $7 billion revenue from corporation taxes-which would mean keeping the corporate income tax at around...