Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Passed a railroad emergency bill providing for: 1) a Federal coordinator to compel operating economies and eliminate duplicate service; 2) a broader rate-making basis for Interstate Commerce Commission; 3) I. C. C. control of railroad holding companies; 4) repeal of the recapture-of-excess-profits clause; sent the bill to the House...
...this week. The gains were not all in the basic industries. Retailers described their trade as the best since Christmas. Exporters, jumping to the chance that a depreciated dollar provided, reported the best business in two years in automobiles, machinery, radios, tools. Sales of cotton goods were well in excess of production, something seldom true of that unhappy industry. Wholesale trade was reported above normal. From London came reports that the travel business of Thos. Cook & Son-Wagons-Lits Co. was 10% above last year. For the time being, observers last week agreed there was little doubt that...
...preliminary examination of the blanks shows a demand in excess of the number of available rooms priced below $260, while the demand for rooms above that price is less than the supply. It is expected that announcement of assignments will be made on or before...
...preliminary examination of the blanks shows that applications for rooms priced at $260 or less are considerably in excess of the number available, while the demand for rooms priced at above $260 is less than the supply. For this reason a notice was posted in the Union on Tuesday asking all Freshmen who could afford to do so, to increase their stated maximum rental to include rooms priced above $260. Even when students cannot raise their maximum above $260, they are urged to relieve the demand for rooms at the lowest prices, by increasing the maximum amount by as much...
...When students could not be admitted to the College of their first choice, groups of eight or less that desired to go together were kept intact. The excess number of men who had applied for a single College were distributed in such a way as to balance the groups in the different Colleges. No list of the applications were published, only the final group of assignments...