Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the front page where his President's words are recorded, John Investor got a far different impression. "I have received a disturbing letter from the Administrator for the Petroleum Industry, Hon. Harold L. Ickes, informing me of the continued daily production of oil in excess of the maximum amount determined on by the Administrator," President Roosevelt wrote last week to interested House and Senate committees. "Records of the Bureau of Mines during the first three months of this year show a daily average production of 'illegal' oil of 149,000 barrels. Technically speaking, this...
...possible investors: "Financial conditions in China are most distressing. Chinese merchants abroad who have been remitting between 300,000,000 and 400,000,000 yuan ($100,000,000 to $133,000,000) a year to help Chinese finances have ceased remittances. Last year China's trade showed an excess of imports amounting to $200,000,000 and if this continues a few more years the Chinese Republic will be bankrupt." Then came the protest proper: "China ought first to readjust her debts before any more money is loaned. Unless such a readjustment is made an added burden will...
...three expect to continue their "diet derby" until the month's end. But they are not altogether happy about the springtime sideshow they are providing for Chicago. Dr. Fishbein gave a lugubrious interview about their glands. Dr. Bundesen was making them believe themselves larded with excess blood vessels. Said he last week to the Herald & Examiner: "Each pound of fat contains 4,500 ft. of blood vessels. So a person 30 lb. overweight has 25 mi. of extra blood vessels." Result of the 21st annual month-long fast during which Harry Wills, walnut-colored retired prizefighter, drank only...
...effort to regulate heating more closely, the Department has developed its own automatic control which consists of a thermostat, a single seated pressure-regulating valve, and an outdoor mercold thermometer. When the heat is turned on in the morning, the thermometer turns off the excess flow of steam and allows only enough to enter the building to maintain a constant temperature. If the outside temperature rises, the mercold thermometer still further shuts the regulating valve. This has greatly cut down the running expenses
...friend, Dr. Adolph Melanchton Hanson of remote Faribault, Minn., injected rats with extracts of cattle thymi (sweetbreads). Nothing unusual seemed to happen, except that the females produced more babies than undosed females. Dr. Rowntree dosed the babies, but got no more obvious results than a continued statistical excess of births. Third, fourth and subsequent generations, however, proved astonishing. Rats generally do not breed before they are 50 to 70 days old. But one of Dr. Rowntree's third-generation rats became a mother when she was only 42 days old. One of the fourth-generation rats was a father...