Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, they point out, if companies are in the excess profits category, management can be putting up one dollar in gifts for a three dollar tax deduction. If five percent of the nation's net corporate income were actually spent on educational purposes, it would amount to a 2.2 billion dollars...
Last week Tenor Lanza, a onetime street-gang wiseguy who never did a day's work until he was 21, was working hard for his money. In a sweltering rubber suit, he puffed along California roads or sparred with his bodyguard-trainer, trying valiantly to sweat off the excess poundage that was costing an exasperated M-G-M many thousands of dollars for an eleven-day delay in the start of his next picture, Because You're Mine. For the moment, Lanza looked more like Mike Di Salle than Lieut. Pinkerton or any other operatic dream prince. Just...
...thinks Picasso overrated, and British art underrated. Says British Painter-Critic Michael Ayrton: "If we in England have one virtue carried to excess, it is our deplorable modesty and sense of inferiority when discussing our own visual arts." As art critic for the weekly Spectator and other British publications, he has waged a hot one-man campaign to boost British art, and denounced Picasso, as "the archangel Lucifer of painting...
...near-idle auto plant has been put to good use by doing work for a competitor. The company, now making only about 200 cars a day, gets an NPA steel allotment on the basis of its previous production of 1,400 a day. K-F is using its excess steel to turn out body components for General Motors' Fisher Body Division. Although K-F lost money in the first quarter, Boss Edgar Kaiser thinks that it will be in the black by year...
...Escape the excess profits tax by concentrating on war orders...