Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Suspended from amateur competition for accepting expense money in excess of A.A.U.-approved limits. America's best miler, Wes Santee, copped a plea by admitting his guilt and arguing that dozens of other track stars do the same thing. The Missouri Valley Association of the A.A.U. revoked the suspension, and the National A.A.U. opened its annual convention by solemnly searching for means of cracking down on promoters whose pay-offs corrupt otherwise pure amateurs...
...fighter blew apart during takeoff. Flight mechanics were baffled until, in the engine wreckage, they found the charred carcass of a seagull. Sucked into the left air scoop as the fighter rose from the runway, the gull's body broke a fuel line, causing an excess amount of gasoline to spurt into the engine...
...Wellesley College's radio station, was forced off the air yesterday by the Federal Communications Commission because of excess radiation, a problem which is also troubling WHRB...
...compelled WBS to shut down because excess radiation from their coaxial cable to the dormitories interfered with commercial radio stations in the Wellesley area. WBS had hoped to delay this suspension until Christmas, but was forced to respond immediately to the FCC ultimatum...
SUBSIDY GIVEBACK will cost T.W.A. and Pan American Airways $22 million, if the Civil Aeronautics Board follows the recommendation of its examiner. Because of "excess earnings" on profitable divisions between 1946 and 1953, T.W.A. will have to give back the full $8,715,000 in subsidies it got on unprofitable routes; Pan American's excess earnings were put at $13,490,000, but it will have to return only $2,490,000 in cash because CAB still owes it some $11 million in back payments...