Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...producer) could best afford a pay rise. A low-cost producer with a steady market in the auto and canning industries, National made a profit even in 1932, when the four biggest companies lost $109,800,000. Since National has a low exemption under the excess-profits tax, most of what it pays out in higher wages can be saved in lower taxes...
Anticipating a spring rise in spirits and excess of energy among the inhabitants of the Yard, the Freshman proctors called informal meetings of their charges last night in an effort to remind them of the parietal rules...
...roads were 23% over 1940, but net operating income (profit before interest and taxes) rose 75%. Two other bullish points are labor and taxes. Shielded by intricate Federal machinery, the railroads have not had a big strike since 1922. By taking the 8%-on-capital option of the excess-profits tax, most railroaders (who have not earned 8% for years) are not required to pay any. Some individual reports...
...compulsions to play the chapel organ in the middle of the night. The music stirs her libido and she thereupon lures young men out on the moors. There, after presumable orgies, her conscience apparently asserts itself. She murders her partners and, it would seem, commits on them certain unmentionable excess damages-the play isn't very clear about...
...history leaked out. With one hand, the Treasury will hike taxes again (see p. 16). With the other, it will sell bonds. Bonds have long been the Treasury's chief method of deficit financing. But it figures that corporations, which used to buy Government bonds, now need their excess funds for defense expansion. Treasury issues which used to be oversubscribed 10-14 times now are oversubscribed only 2-4 times. So the Treasury will now raise its money from the general public. Slower and more costly than selling in large chunks, peddling bonds to citizens has one big advantage...