Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gallon to 31? in 1931, rosin from $8.50 a barrel to $2.95. By 1933 the housing collapse and a shrunken export market reduced the naval stores industry to a pauperish $13,792,000. In March 1936 producers met at Jacksonville, formed the American Turpentine Farmers Association Cooperative to cut excess production, get rid of surplus stocks, undertake conservation...
...this day in ancient China, some two millenniums before Christ, a monster was seen devouring the sun. While people rushed about madly and beat drums to scare off the celestial demon, Court Astronomers Hsi and Ho were found drunk. To punish them for being "sunk in wine and excess" instead of tending to business on a dire occasion, they had their heads...
...seemed likely that pituitary excess set in after the Angel's long bones had stopped growing, otherwise he might have been a giant. His overdevelopment is lateral. Though just under 5 ft. 10 in. tall, he weighs 276 Ibs. One investigator declared: "The collar bones and rib cage are the most massive I have ever seen. . . . The tremendous nuchal [back-of-the-neck] musculature is quite beyond anything I have ever conceived...
...national income somewhat in excess of 80 billion dollars. This income, which we once had, is now a goal of which the New Deal talks. But, for 130,000,000 people, a national income of 80 billion dollars is only a little better than $600 per capita. That, in the judgment of the Committee, is no place to stop. Clearly there is room for expansion of our enterprise...
Fortnight ago young Robert Ellsworth Gross, president of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., published an unaudited preview of his 1939 annual report: sales, $35,303,444, up 244% from 1938; net earnings in excess of $3,140,000 ($4.05 a share), up 610%; unfilled orders over $40,000,000 (they jumped to $70,000,000 last week). Bob Gross's preview was incidentally a potent sales talk for an operation that took place last week. It was a type of operation that has threatened to become obsolete: a public offering of common stock to obtain new capital...