Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manufacture of civilian goods. But said Czar Jimmy soothingly, the Government has no thought of operating its plants in postwar competition with private business. And, said Byrnes, dipping deep in the Santa Claus bag, "with the ending of the war there should be an end to the excess profits...
...cycle had made a full turn, and a million U.S. duck shooters looked forward to the best season in years. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with an eye toward crop damage from the excess stock, added ten days to the season (which opens next week in the Northern Zone). In addition, the WPB relaxed shotgun ammunition restrictions, allowing each hunter four boxes (100 shells) instead of the one box allowed last year. The hunter's problem was to get his four boxes; most dealers still had scant supplies, were doling out one box per person. It might...
Title V is specific: it prohibits political argument "of any kind designed or calculated to affect the result of a [federal] election." It was written in an excess of zeal by anti-New Dealers to keep the Administration from making propaganda hay with the troops...
...effect, Section 722 specifies the means by which a corporation can modify its prewar, four-year excess profits base on which the tax is estimated. Thus, since the top bracket is 90%, even a slight upward revision of the average base would mean an enormous rebate. To make sure that no corporation was frozen out of at least a chance to claim such a recount, Congress made Section 722 a long, loosely-phrased document offering several broad formulas for arriving at a new tax base. Example: if, during one of the four tax-base years, a corporation's profits...
...Here is your first eleventh-century church! . . . Serious and simple to excess! is it not? Young people rarely enjoy it. They prefer the Gothic. ... No doubt they are right, since they are young: but men and women who have lived long and are tired, who want rest . . . feel this repose and self-restraint as they feel nothing else. The quiet strength of these curved lines, the solid support of these heavy columns, the moderate proportions, even the modified lights, the absence of display, of effort, of self-consciousness, satisfy them as no other art does. They come back...