Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general charge made against British coal operators is that they will not do anything now to jeopardize their possible post-war profits. Now they cannot keep excess profits. So they tend to work the worst seams, on which they are able to cover costs, rather than open up rich, new seams which look good for a competitive future...
...special scarcity scares. Its chief raw material, Canadian groundwood, requires huge amounts of power, which might be required for power-hungry aluminum mills instead. But Canadian newsprint mills today are running at only 75% of capacity: the power freed by the remaining 25% (not to mention excess capacity in other areas) should be more than enough for the new aluminum capacity scheduled to come in next fall...
Indiana Boy. Albert Wayne Coy, 38, was born in Shelby County, Ind., soon dropped the Albert as excess baggage. After college he worked for the Franklin Evening Star, finally bought a scraggly country weekly...
...cooled aircraft engines had pondered one problem: how to fabricate strong cylinder heads cheaply. Even the best cylinder heads sometimes cracked under prolonged stress. Heads have two functions: to withstand the tremendous pressures generated by the cylinder's air-gas vapor explosions, and to drain off excess heat with flangelike cooling fins. To drain off the heat was the tough problem. England's Bristol works whittles fins in forged heads at tremendous expense. In the U.S. a less costly scheme was adopted. Heads were cast in a bird's nest of sand patterns. Hundreds of nails, each...
...should favor low-cost and high-profit enterprise with priorities and tax concessions, favor efficient management similarly with salaries and bonuses tied to production and profits. Last week a U.S. Department of Commerce report revealed that Germany had been doing just that: low-cost German industry gets exemption from excess-profits taxes in direct proportion to its productive efficiency...