Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French political bloc in Quebec and Ontario, Mackenzie King has soft-pedaled the question of conscription for overseas service, which in the last months has been brought up with increasing vigor by the all-out-for-Britain citizens of the prairie Provinces and the West. Canadian businessmen oppose the excess-profit taxes, the regulations, the price ceilings that the wartime Government has set. And Canadian labor resents wage ceilings quite as much, cites the cases of many labor leaders and radicals locked up under the steel-lined Defense of Canada Regulations to prove that the King Government is antilabor...
...plan, which would replace the 5% bonds with income bonds, cuts capitalization from $671,206,000 to $560,479,000. This smaller capitalization would reduce the excess-profits tax exemption and increase Federal taxes sixfold. Chairman Pyeatt figured that before first and refunding bondholders could get the 5% due them on their present securities, profits under the proposed plan would have to hit $87,000,000, which is $52,000,000 more than MOP ever earned...
Stockholders can even be grateful to Adolph Zukor for the inflated prices at which he bought the theaters. Under the tax laws, Paramount can compute its excess-profits credit on the theaters' original cost. To shareholders, this means a tax credit of about $10,000,000 a year...
...Expense accounts from NRA heydays rose to haunt high-flying Columnist General Hugh S. Johnson, his son Major Kilbourne, his secretary Frances M. ("Robbie") Robinson. The President vetoed a bill to validate old payments to the three for excess traveling expenses in 1933-34. Unless the Senate overrides the veto the General owes the Government $1,868.61, the Major $3,335, Robbie, $57.19 ∙∙ Bird-wise Quiz Kid Gerard Darrow wept remorsefully as he taxied to an Audubon Society meeting in Chicago, where he knew he would meet Columnist John Kieran, Information Pleaser. Nine-year-old Gerard, who wrote...
Harlow had planned to restrict the Varsity to non-contact work until today, when the regular midweek scrimmage is to be held, but the entire first team except for the ends blow off some excess steam at the expense of the subs, as the Crimson pounded down almost the length of the field just before going...