Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Government heretofore has by means of a franchise tax been taking all the profits of the twelve Federal Reserve banks in excess of a 6 per cent dividend, but Congress at the last session repealed the franchise tax so that the member banks could get the profits. So as the law stands today the profits in any gold rise belong to the member banks of the Federal Reserve system...
...Francisco lately a motherly Christian Science practitioner had an obscure hotel clerk arrested for threatening her life in an excess of affection. A judge dismissed the complaint on condition that the accused man leave town. One day last fortnight the man disappeared from a coastwise steamer, left identical notes addressed to San Francisco newspapers. Few days later Hearst's Examiner editorialized...
...power in excess of 400 k.w.h. at 2/5? per k.w.h. Thus 600 k.w.h. would cost $7.30 from...
Acid for Wine. An expert chemist's advice for aging wine rapidly: "All young wine contains cream of tartar and tartaric acid. It usually requires several years of aging for the precipitation of excess tartar during the process of fermentation, and after the conclusion thereof. ... By addition of calcium malate in proper proportions to wine, even when young, and agitating it for a short time, any proportion of tartaric acid desired can be removed, leaving the malic acid to replace the natural constituent of grapes...
...nonsense. Apparently we are going to get a black mark if we don't apply for something whether we want it or not. The R. F. C. is not a liberal lender. If it wants to do something for the banks who have borrowed, let it release the excess collateral it has taken and reduce the interest charged on its loans." Appealed to on the grounds of patriotism, the A. B. A. as a whole could not give so blunt an answer to the Administration but it made clear its way of thinking. Col. Leonard Ayres, economist vice president...