Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...aimed at providing incentives for industry, it is not an all-industry program. Individuals have already received $3 billion in tax relief from the 10% cut made last month, may soon get more relief from lower excise taxes. Corporations got $2 billion in reductions with the death of the excess profits tax. In the first year of the new plan, stockholders and other individuals would get $510 million, industry would get about $675 million in relief. But within three years, the new plan would give individuals $1.4 billion a year in reductions, while industry's share would remain unchanged...
...charged by reputable firms. Some shady companies were found to be offering sizable kickbacks for business brought to them by union leaders. In New York, the late (gunshot wounds) Yonkers Raceway Labor Boss Thomas F. Lewis (TiME, Oct. 5) and his associates picked up $275,000 in excess commissions and fees from the welfare fund of his small (about 5,000 members) union. In Minneapolis, a teamsters' union-fund trustee borrowed money from the fund to open a bar and grill...
...outbreak. It carried a sharp warning for hospital nurseries everywhere. New diapers had been stamped with the hospital's name, and aniline oil from the ink had seeped through the skin into the babies' blood. A simple preventive: boil the diapers thoroughly, to get rid of excess oil, before using...
...majority of stockholders other than himself must approve by March 30. Explained he: "I have been sued by certain . . . stockholders and accused of responsibility for losses . . . I would like to feel that I have given all the stockholders . . . an opportunity to receive . . . an amount well in excess of its market value . . . when I first became connected with the company, or at any time since...
...comes a woman's brief for Lucrezia. Author Maria Bellonci's argument: Lucrezia was no weakling; her tragedy lay in an excess of a virtue that all women used to be taught-womanly acquiescence to her family's menfolks. In her prize-winning (1939) life of Lucrezia, now translated into English, Italian Author Bellonci goes over the evidence with the thoroughness of a housewife at a serious job of spring renovation...