Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Senate Sub-committee on the Judiciary, headed by Sen. William E. Jenner (Rep.-Ind.) came to Boston last March, the Post gave the first day's hearings six pages of publicity. This, despite its editorial of the previous week, which opposed televising such hearings because "excess publicity is bad from any standpoint except that of the personal publicity that is likely to accrue to committee members." The day before the hearings opened, Kirtley Mather, professor of Geology, who for years has been accused of Communist front activities, announced he had been subpoenaed and said he "would cooperate...
...have had one major complaint to file with Detroit: too few cars. Last week, they sang a different song. Across the U.S., dealers complained that they could not sell all the cars Detroit turned out. Texas dealers passed a resolution condemning "the production of automobiles in quantities far in excess of the number which can be orderly and efficiently sold." Kansas dealers, at their convention, called for a production cutback. Even one of the manufacturers joined the chorus. Said Studebaker's Chairman Paul G. Hoffman: "The automobile factories must limit their production to that volume of cars which...
...Congress finally gave the President an extension on the excess profits tax, though House Ways & Means Chairman Dan Reed had almost killed the bill...
Said the President of the U.S.: "The Soviets now possess a stockpile of atomic weapons of conventional types and we must furthermore conclude that the powerful explosion of August 12th last was produced by a weapon, or a forerunner of a weapon, of power far in excess of conventional types...
Koster in one instance obviates this difficulty by placing one character in front of a gnarled tree whose splayed branches conveniently fill the excess space. Success by gimmick can only occasionally be used, otherwise it becomes obvious and annoying. This consideration would seem to proscribe the use of CinemaScope for the filming of epics. The Robe, with its Biblical sweep, is easily adopted to the requirements of the large screen. It is doubtful, though, that this medium could be used successfully with intimate boudoir comedy...