Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...below cost, and the limitations of output are being abandoned, although a year ago these were represented as the only means of curing a demoralized state of industry. Mr. Richberg has even recognized that the process of raising wages in order to "increase purchasing power" may be carried to excess...
...gasoline price wars which broke out like a rash all over the land last week. They are pumping oil in East Texas now instead of just piping it off but that paradise of the little fellow is merrily producing at least 100,000 bbl. of oil daily in excess of all allotments- all "hot"' oil. The retail price of gasoline has been threatened for more than a year by "distress stocks"-largely gasoline refined by slimly-financed independents. As an alternative to price-fixing. Oil Administrator Ickes gave his blessings to a pool backed by major companies which took...
Laytex is made from latex (rubber tree milk) from which proteins, sugars and water solubles are removed. Lengths of wire to be insulated are fed vertically through tanks containing the processed milk. At each immersion a film of milk adheres to the wire and dries, any excess falling back into the tank. Thus, by repeated dippings, the insulation is built around the conductor, the wire is accurately centred, and the wall thickness of the insulation is uniform...
...lawyer as declaring before a group of junketing U. S. coffeemen: "When within two months the flames of coffee burning in Brazil are extinct . . . you will all be in a position to state in your country that the DNC has completely achieved its program for the elimination of all excess coffee stocks...
...Government is going to underwrite the strike had best get it out of his head. . . . There was a rumor that got back to me that I was going to allot money to the unions for strike relief. ... In the last 15 months appropriations made because of strikes, in excess of our regular grants, have been almost negligible. The facts of this are illustrated in the recent California strike, where we have evidence that the number of strikers who applied for relief was only...