Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last year and not far short of one-half the world's supply. From the recondite records of the Federal Reserve System it was evident that little if any of the timid capital was seeking real investment. The funds were merely adding to the money glut by increasing excess member bank reserves, already amounting to $2,800,000,000. If bankers could find borrowers, those reserves would permit an expansion of credit to ten times $2,800,000,000 and create a boom that would dwarf the 1920's. Such a runaway boom is what most people mean...
...have delivered in excess of 4,000,000 cans, all of which have been filled and distributed...
...expected to enrich the Treasury by $250,000,000. Boosted sharply were individual income surtaxes, beginning at 31% on $50,000 and reaching 75% on amounts over $5,000,000. Corporation income taxes graded up from 127% on amounts under $2,000 to 15% on those over $40.000. Corporation excess profits taxes were set at 6% on profits of 10% to 15%, 12% on all over 15%. To measure profits, corporations were allowed to declare a new capital value, cautioned against setting it too high by a capital stock tax raised to $1.40 per $1,000. Upped estate taxes ranged...
...stockholders' meetings the bonus scheme was angrily denounced. Last week these grumblings culminated in a suit filed in Manhattan's Supreme Court by one Albert Lautman, a stockholder, who sought to force Messrs. Noah and Warner to return to the company all of their 1933 bonuses in excess of "just and reasonable compensation" for their services...
...Administration sees no cause for anxiety in the present crop estimate. If, when the new crop began to move in volume, there appeared to be a tendency for prices to be depressed, the Administration would not hesitate to offer ample loans that would immediately absorb excess supplies...