Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...previous acreage control measures, we were immediately able to plant feed crops . . . and purchase . . . the herds of drought-stricken cattle. . . . Since there are 7,000,000 head of cattle in the country in excess of the number needed to maintain an adequate meat and milk supply, even this disaster is not unmanageable...
...lesion' affects the circulation of blood and lymph and thus becomes responsible for producing in the tissues the point of lowered resistance in which germs locate and propagate. It is also responsible for a region of stagnant blood, or some-times of stimulated circulation, which may result in excess or defect or perversion of the growth or function in structures directly influenced...
...Some $1,700,000,000 excess reserves of banks (unnecessary idle deposits with the Federal Reserve on which member banks get no interest). These have been piled up by the return to the banks of hoarded cash, by the $1,676,000,000 which during two and one half years Federal Reserve Banks have paid out in buying Government securities, by the return of $800,000,000 of gold from abroad, by the Government's spending of part of its $2,000,000,000 exchange stabilization fund...
...production in Texas. The Department of Justice had failed to approve the industry's plan for a $10,000,000 oil purchasing pool among 29 companies and Congress had gone home without giving him a law to control and punish companies which produced oil in excess of their quotas. Now he cajoled 38 East Texas refiners representing 87% of the companies of that area into a gasoline stabilization agreement. The refiners promised to abide by his gasoline allocations, to report all transactions, and, above all, to buy no "hot oil." The major producers who also control retail outlets agreed...
Trader Cutten was charged with misreporting or failing to report his long and short positions in excess of 500,000 bu. under the Grain Futures Act (TIME, April 23). He did not attend his own hearing in the walnut-paneled, air-conditioned courtroom in the Federal Appraisers' Stores building. But a band of Texas farmers trooped in when the hearings began fortnight ago to see if they could find out "what becomes of our wheat and why we got 25? a bushel." They heard that: 1) Trader Cutten had been 11,000,000 bu. short of wheat...