Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tree Grows in Brooklyn" has turned up on the screen quite cleaned up and edited, but the sordid spirit and the pat honesty are still very much in evidence. If the story is inclined to bore the avid action fan with its straightforward excess of emotion, then the indictment probably spares Hollywood and goes back to Betty Smith...
Through a canny deal with RFC, Kaiser now takes the profits from some of his shipyards and applies them on his Fontana loan. If he could not use it this way, most of the money would probably go to the Government anyhow in excess-profits taxes. He has already paid off $7,500,000 has another $8,000,000 set aside to pay. The balance is still big. But he warned Big Steel that he is in Western steelmaking to stay. As a matter of fact, said Henry Kaiser, his men are now inspecting Geneva. He may buy that...
...would forthwith raise the maximum benefit to $20 a week, stretch the time periods to 26 weeks. Lester would try to do it by nudging the states to make more liberal use of their reserves, now in excess of $6 billion. To get the states on the move, he urged Congress to set up a Federal guaranty fund of $600 to $700 million to support any state fund that becomes depleted by prolonged benefit drains...
...have been in New Guinea for a period in excess of 30 days...
...force . . . mighty in courage and determination." Said Foreign Minister Anthony Eden, the man who called the Guard to arms when the Germans were just across the "drink" and likely to come over any day: "Britain will never forget that in our dark hour, when your numbers were far in excess of your equipment, it was the U.S. which alone gave us the weapons...