Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...large numbers of women who are expected to attend, there will probably be a considerably greater number of men, especially Harvard undergraduates. It is certain, however, that the total number of students will be far larger than last year's 2145; in fact, it will probably be considerably in excess of this year's total enrollment of 3545 undergraduates...
Under the heading of Insurance in TIME, March 23, the attitude of the Insurance Company of North America against improper excess payments to agents for competitive advantage was badly misinterpreted as indicating a desire to reduce normal commissions...
...advocate reducing normal commissions. We do, however, strike at the payment of so-called excess commissions for competitive advantage, believing that such excess should be resolved in favor of the policyholder...
...months experts and pundits in Washington have argued compulsory saving pro & con. Eleanor Roosevelt trial-ballooned a scheme for deferred overtime pay, coupled with deferred corporation profits in excess of 3%. Among other proposals are plans to give a certain amount of compensating income-tax deductions to those who buy defense bonds, and simply to impose heavier social-security taxes. All have the same general object: to hold down wartime inflation-and to pump the spending power back when a post-war depression starts...
...reason why stockholders see only a fraction of it. First, up to 72% of 1941 earnings on stockholders' property were taken in Federal corporation taxes (a levy from which bondholders escape scot-free). Another large hunk is often set aside for special reserves. Sometimes the desire to escape excess-profits taxes may be behind these reserves, but no man can tell, until he knows how bad the war and post-war world will be, whether corporations are being too conservative-or not conservative enough...