Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Commissions, Not Excess...
...Census Bureau totted up U.S.Latin American trade for 1941, discovered an overall import balance of $106,072,000 in trade with Latin America. (Most dollar-glutted was Argentina, with $57,371,000 of excess exports. A close second was sugar-rich Cuba, with $55,301,000.) But eight Latin American countries were not able to balance their trade with the U.S. Worst off: Mexico, with an import balance...
...Many famous companies have already cut their dividends. Biggest market declines came in companies like Du Pont, Eastman Kodak, Dow Chemical, International Business Machines, whose conservative fiscal methods, progressiveness and aggressiveness had made them blue chips. Under the Treasury-proposed tax program, these sound peacetime policies will hardly pay; "excess profits" will be taxed 89%. Net will depend very little on good management now, very largely on how much money was earned five years ago or how much money was sunk in the company a generation back...
...feared inflation like a snake, and repeatedly offered to bear more taxes to "balance the budget." These offers have been manna from heaven for the Government spenders. The balanced budget for which business volunteered to pay is further away than ever, but in the meantime corporation taxes (excluding excess profits taxes) have been boosted seven times, from...
...same afternoon the Jayvees finished an undefeated season, as did the Freshmen, and in the Junior Varsity race the Crimson thirds placed second, well in front of the Tech and Princeton Jayvees in an exhibition which one humiliated Bengal was heard to term a "blatant display of excess power...