Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany discovered," Harris declared, "an excess of educated men and women on the market germinates anti-intellectuals among the disappointed and frustrated...
...extent that certain industries did this, it was their own fault that Congressmen raised an outcry for an excess-profits tax even though the U.S. may end the current fiscal year with a budget surplus. Warned Wyoming's New Dealing Senator Joe O'Mahoney: "My theory is that any industry earning excess profits from full employment or Government spending should pay more taxes...
...salt domes and along the shores of Texas, the cracking towers and silvery balls of synthetic rubber, plastics and fertilizer plants had created a new chemical empire. Profits had helped pay for expansion. An excess-profits tax would not only nip the expansion but, if the wartime formula was followed, would hit the most progressive companies hardest (Jersey Standard would pay more heavily than U.S. Steel). As Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders said: "You can say so much against it [an excess-profit tax] that I have difficulty in understanding what anybody...
...time and the look of town & country to the reader in a way historians rarely do. Hamilton was contemptuous .of "aggrandized upstarts" who put on social airs, and he frankly looked down on anyone who was not a "gentleman." He loved good company, drank with relish but not to excess (the capacity of New York City's "toapers" astonished and disgusted him), and never missed a pretty face or a stayless figure. If anyone could rile him more thoroughly than a long-winded bore, it was a religious fanatic, and the inns of colonial America seemed to be cluttered...
...Mahoney was not convinced. He thought the hearings were merely staged so businessmen could "rationalize why taxes shouldn't be increased." He was in favor of an excess profits tax, and he has a good chance to head the Joint Committee on the Economic Report in the next Congress, a strategic spot from which to push such...