Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Millstone that long ground down copper prices was excess metal that backed up on producers when Depression plugged sales. In 1933, copper above ground in the U. S. bulked some 540,000 tons, which at the low rate of Depression consumption was enough to last the U. S. about two and a half years. Since then, U. S. copper men have cut excess stocks to some 218,000 tons, about three months' supply at the present rate of consumption...
...baking company and retail distributor counted as seven taxes. Even after multiplication, it was shown that only 13 of the 58 taxes were Federal. The rest were state, county, local or municipal.* Of the 16 kinds of taxes, only three were Federal: On income, on capital stock and on excess profits. These three, the only ones which Alf Landon could possibly reduce if he went to the White House, were not hidden but direct taxes, which he favors...
...definitely established in Hollywood, cinemactors gazed bug-eyed with joy at Variety's report that "[Radio] salaries of $10.000 and over for individual names for single performances may be paid," and that "over a 39-week season . . the lowest requirement for Holly-wood shows alone will be in excess of 1,000 names." Only croaking voices in Hollywood's radio boom were those of film exhibitors, who claimed that on nights when cinema stars were broadcasting, their theatres were sparsely attended. In the Midwest, in Southern California, in Arizona, Colorado, New York and New England, the embattled members...
...Short, wiry, dapper, cheerful, he is married, has a 5-year-old daughter, likes to ski, play tennis. Some years ago he perceived that when a nuclear impact knocks a neutron and a positron out of an electron, there is a mysterious disappearance of energy. He surmised that the excess energy rode away on a little particle which, now generally accepted as theoretically necessary, still eludes observation. It is because of Fermi that this little particle, the neutrino, has an Italian name...
...result, according to the indictment, was that large sums of money were arbitrarily extracted from jobbers. Furthermore it was specifically charged that the defendants were still attempting to stabilize prices by taking ''distress" (i. e., excess) gasoline off the market, particularly in the East Texas fields...