Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mechanic for examination when Snell had finally finished with it. Here it was revealed, the report stated, that the cylinder heads had been seriously scarred when Snell's men pried them off, and that the repair shop had unsuccessfully attempted to conceal the effects of this damage by placing excess gasket-maker between the heads and the engine block...
...addition many other signs of negligence and abuse were discovered: four of the items enumerated on Snell's original bill were either not attempted or not completed satisfactorily; and the bill for parts was in excess of quoted Lincoln-Zephyr prices effective at that time...
...Bill Batt announced that U.S. manganese output for 1943 will be stepped up 1,400% over 1940 (to 600,000 tons a year) by developing high-cost mines in Minnesota, South Dakota and Nevada. The Government will absorb the excess price, sell the metal to fabricators at what imported concentrate would cost them...
Profit Limitation? The Treasury would still like to assess excess-profits taxes solely on invested capital, in effect recapture all profits (whether "war profits" or not) above 6 or 8%. But Congress has thrice rejected the idea, and this week the Treasury let the sleeping dog lie-for the time being. Instead, adopting a British idea, it proposed a post-war refund of profits taxes in excess of 80%, for expenses of conversion to peace...
...Ferguson decided that U.S. employers should "grab the ball from the New Deal" and care for their own unemployed after the war. To Secretary Morgenthau he proposed that the Treasury offer $500 certificates for sale to war employers. Employers would buy one certificate per year for each employe in excess of the number on the payroll June 30, 1940. Thus three years of war employment would provide about $30 a week, for one year, to each surplus war worker...