Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mass production, more accurate cost schedules on once-unfamiliar war material. Actually, the net savings to the Government are far less than these amounts. If the boards did not exist, the Government would still have collected something approaching 80% of the same sums but in the form of excess-profits taxes. There are 14,682 contracts left...
Ammunition: "Schedules have been cut back to absorb excess inventories...
This time Joan Fontaine is Tessa, the nubile nymph doomed to love in vain (in Switzerland and England) for 105 cineminutes, and to expire of excess happiness and a heart attack inside of one. Charles Boyer is egocentric Composer Dodd, who does not notice that little Tessa is growing up and in love with him. Alexis Smith is his icy socialite wife, who does notice...
Wrote Lyons: "Canadian officials aren't trying to reform their economic system. They are just keeping prices down." Key industrialists run price control: "The Government always has a businessman to take the rap when his industry howls . . . and the Government is tough to business. Their excess-profits...
Warned Representative Engel: "If there is one thing that will set the returning soldier against his Government, it is excess profits . . . on invested capital, and excess wages paid to labor. . . . If Socialism or Communism ever gets a foothold in this country, it will be because of these wartime profiteers in the ranks of labor and industry...