Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Capital Stock and Excess Profits. A tax of 1/10% on declared value of capital stock and a tax of 5% on corporate earnings in excess of 12% on declared capital. (By the old law these twin taxes would have ended June 30.) Increased revenue...
...jealous husband (Maia Desnuda, Maia Vestida, now in the Prado at Madrid). One night when her carriage broke down on an Andalusian hill, Goya built a fire, welded the axle with his hands, caught a chill which deafened him for life. Coarse, snub-nosed, his face creased by excess, Goya, in spite of his duchess who used to come to his studio to be rouged by him, worked incessantly. He painted courtiers, decorated churches, produced Los Caprichos, his most famed etchings. These showed madmen, convicts, prostitutes, gluttonous monks, himself enticed by a two-headed Alba. Outraged, the Inquisition tried...
...applications filed by 1937 are now in the hands of the Masters and the Central Committee who will consider then and render the final verdict about May 1. It was stated that the number of applications is "somewhat in excess of the accommodations available...
...Reimposition of the temporary 1/10% capital stock tax and 5% excess profits tax originally imposed by the Recovery Act-to yield $95,000,000 a year. 2) A flat additional tax of 10% (to last for one year) on all personal income taxes after they have been calculated in the ordinary way-to yield $55,000,000. 3) A new estate tax, cutting exemptions from $50,000 to $40,000 and boosting the scale from a top of 45% to a top of 60% (on estates over $10,000,000)-to yield $90,000,000. 4) A boost...
...Last week in Connecticut Albert Levitt, onetime Columbia University professor, now a special assistant in the U. S. Attorney General's office, charged in a debate with Samuel Ferguson, chairman of Connecticut Power and President of Hartford Electric Light, that the two companies had earned $8,000,000 excess profits in the last five years, offered to go to jail for five years if he could not prove it in the Supreme Court...