Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...manufactures re-enter the market. But Brazil is accumulating capital, machinery, know-how. Brazil's level of industrialization will probably remain well above what it was when the war began. Part of the money to equip her factories with the best foreign machinery will come from a steep excess-profits tax which may be avoided by putting twice the amount into government-issued "equipment certificates...
...Henry (Mrs. Herbert) Hoover, in a letter to her sons Allan and Herbert Jr., disposed of an estate valued "in excess of $10,000." Filed as a will in San Jose, Calif., her letter declared: "... I have a will somewhere. I have not seen it in years. ... So I will replace it with this. . . . You have been lucky boys to have had such a father and I am a lucky woman to have had my life's trail alongside the paths of three such men and boys. ... To your Daddy I bequeath all my interest and rights...
...United Nations has no relation to the amount of oil that the world can consume in peacetime; 3) U.S. meddling in increased Middle Eastern production will merely destroy the Western Hemisphere's markets-particularly those of Good Neighbors long cultivated by high U.S. policy-without assuring excess oil in wartime...
Government sources asserted that the U.S. as yet has set no postwar policy on tin. But a four years' supply-and the new U.S. tin smelter in Texas, which has an annual capacity in excess of 50,000 tons- would make potent weapons in dealing with the international tin cartel...
...mile international section of the river between El Paso and Brownsville is sometimes only a chain of puddles, sometimes a roaring flood which pours precious water into the Gulf. If this excess water could be used for irrigation throughout the year, it would add perhaps a million acres of rich agricultural land to both the U.S. and Mexico, bring to reality a project long discussed by both...