Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...minutes, however, some loose-tongued Senator stuck out his head to whisper to the Press that another chunk had been taken out of the measure. First inheritance taxes went out bodily. Then a new schedule of estate taxes higher than those in force was ordered written. Next the stiff excess profits tax proposed by the House was pared down. Personal income tax exemptions were cut from $2,500 to $2,000 for married people, from $1,000 to $800 for single persons. Surtaxes were increased from the bottom up. These new rates would boost the taxes of every married income...
...middling $50,000 incomes. Instead of a corporation income tax grading up from 10¾|% to 16¾% according to size of income, it closed the gap to an insignificant 1% - 13¼% to 14¼%. As a substitute for the President's proposal, it wrote in an excess profits tax, 5% to 20% on profits over 8% of 1934 declared capital value. Corporations were authorized to deduct on their tax returns all gifts to charity up to 5% of their net income...
...right. Cut-rate dollars, cut-rate pounds, cut-rate yen and the rest of the Great Powers' goods-dumping moves have provided such keen competition for Italian exports that not even the most drastic dictating has been able to achieve for Italy a favorable balance of trade. Her excess of imports over exports for the first five months of this year was 1,157,000,000 lire ($95,552,500). Today II Duce is seeking a solution by the conquest of Ethiopia reported by recent geological surveys to be gratifyingly rich in precious metals, oil and other untapped earthly...
...agreed to a comfortable division of the new offices. There was to be but one ticket: Manuel Quezon for President; Sergio Osmeña, his onetime rival, for Vice President. Manuel Roxas, No. 3 man, would be Speaker of the single legislative body under the new Constitution. And the excess of leaders resulting from the coalition of two factions would be quietly taken care of by appointments to the Supreme Court. But last week as Señor Quezon was within a few days sailing distance of home, it appeared that anything might happen to upset his well-laid plans...
...Industries with chronic overproduction or a vast number of small-units will miss code discipline the most. The ugly problem of wage & hour differentials between the North and South was again to the fore in textiles and coal-complicated as always by excess capacity. Cement and fertilizer makers were nervous about prices. Copper men hoped to continue their curtailment program on a voluntary basis. In the liquor industry with its six codes scrapped price-cutting came early and easily...