Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vice President and later Ambassador to Britain his old Central Republic Bank & Trust Co. had loaned nearly $12,000,000 to Insull concerns. Because the loans were made to different units in the system, they were not in violation of the Illinois law forbidding loans to one company in excess of 15% of capital funds. But that his bank had violated the spirit of the law Banker Dawes did admit. The collateral securing the loans was put up by Central Republic for its $90,000,000 R. F. C. loan last summer. Banker Dawes concluded: "I think a feeling...
...entirely "depression-proof" but earnings held up remarkably. Liggett 6 Myers fell only $46,000 short of equaling 1931's $23,121,000 and Reynolds earned $33,674,000 against $36,396,000. Reynolds earnings were actually $4,000,000 higher than reported, that figure representing the excess of advertising appropriations for 1932 against actual expenditures. Breaking in newspapers last fortnight was the new Camel campaign, handled and written by William Esty & Co. (TIME, Dec. 26). Its motif: "It's fun to be fooled. . . . It's more fun to know...
...factories" have been clamoring in vain for tractors and other equipment which the State could not supply fast enough, great though its progress has been. Result: a sullen, spontaneous, nation-wide "strike" by Soviet peasants who have refused (and in some instances have been unable) to grow grain in excess of their own needs which the State must have to feed Russia's cities...
...shared only with his onetime bus-driving sons, Edward and William. Son Edward, an engineer, builds the family buses in Brooklyn. Son William gave up a private law practice to become general manager. Though refusing to divulge the size of his company, Harris Nevin says mysteriously: "It is in excess of many millions." None of the many millions has gone into fancy offices; located on Manhattan's West 33rd St., they are dingy, grimy, efficient. Even Harris Nevin's daughter is in buses as manager of the Chicago office. Before her marriage, she was a practicing dentist...
...efficacious adjunct to alcoholic liquors because, more than any other food, it inhibits intoxication by retarding the accumulation of alcohol in the blood. By itself, alcohol is not warming; it produces an illusory glow by increasing the amount of blood in the skin, but this glow causes excess radiation of body heat, reduces the temperature. Hot drinks help promote sleep; those containing alcohol may do so if stimulation is absent or has subsided. The hypnotic action of beer is due in part to the lupulin of the hops rather than to the alcohol content...