Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...full weekly quota, while weekly charges for 14 meals will be $7.25 and for ten meals $6.25. In the Freshman Union the price will be cut from $9 to $8 per week. The total savings to undergraduates as a result of these reductions is estimated to be in excess of $50,000 annually...
Sargent & Ross are broadcasting for Tangee Lipstick with Greta Keller. They help give the program speed which, but for the excess of advertising comment, would make it one of the best on the air. Greta Keller has started making U. S. records. Best one so far is "Willow Weep for Me" (Brunswick). But her talent is wasted on stereotype jazz. With her warm, persuasive voice she can establish a dozen different moods. Critics have spotted her as an ideal performer for any brewery which, in the next year or so, decides to do its beer advertising with leisurely, old-fashioned...
...that it had to be closed in 1930 were devious and complicated. The major "misapplication" of funds was the transfer of debt from the Bank of the United States to other companies personally controlled by Marcus and Singer. This was done largely through a huge loan, eight millions in excess of the legal limit, and through the sale to these affiliates of a block of stock at almost twice its book-value. For the sake of simplicity, only these operations were brought up by the investigators, though it was known that there were numerous other questionable deals. Faced with such...
...made a grave error when it rejected such a successful leader for a second term. A Strother news item : President Hoover planned to call a White House conference on ''The Use of Leisure Time" but never publicly announced it for fear a country suffering from an excess of involuntary leisure might misunderstand and mock...
Kallen does not believe that "overproduction" is the reason for the world's Depression. " 'Overproduction' is not a fact. Honest overproduction is a creation of a supply in excess of all needs. That has never yet happened. The needs of men have multiplied absolutely and relatively with the expansion of industry. There is not a single honest commodity, whether a necessity of life, a comfort or a luxury, of which enough is produced to supply the living need. But need and purchasing power have not kept pace with each other. . . . The crux of the situation . . . lies...