Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across the trough of the Depression." The President assembled a list of all the means of assistance being put at the disposal of the carriers and found their total encouraging. First, there was the Railway Credit Corp. in which, for the benefit of weak lines, would be pooled excess earnings from rate increases. Next there was emergency rail aid to be had from the $500,000.000 Reconstruction Finance Corp., the speedy enactment of which by Congress the President called a most urgent matter." Most important of all were temporary wage cuts...
Receipts for the 12 Months Ended June 30, 1931$1,071,498.66 Guarantees Paid to Visiting Teams 293,277.69 -- Amount Available for Athletics and Physical Education $ 778,220.97 Total Expenses for All These Purposes 727,668.62 Excess of Income over Expenses $ 50, 552.35 INCOME AND EXPENSES OF ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION *Income Expense University Baseball Team $ 17,870.62 $ 27,821.12 University Crew 4,386.04 42,425.84 University Football 613,211.17 119,492.76 University Track Team 14,302.47 39,116.30 University Hockey Team 12,141.70 20,648.49 Minor Sport Teams and Physical Education Department 148,543.48 Maintenance and Operation of Athletic Buildings...
...Wilson the only American not to be aware that among the French there is hardly any drinking to excess, and that if a Frenchman sees a "staggering drunk" in Paris, he assumes that it is an American? American customs, as observed in France, have even enriched the French language by a new comparison: instead of ivre comme un Polonais, the familiar expression is now (alas!) saoul comme un Américain [drunk as an American...
...week his directorate and the Chatham Phenix directorate had a session, voted unanimously to merge the two banks. The deal, to be completed in February in all likelihood, will consist of an exchange of stock. The Gibsonized banks will have total resources of about $550,000,000, deposits in excess of $400,000,000, creating the seventh biggest Manhattan bank.* No name had been chosen last week but it was announced that Banker Gibson will be chairman of the board and president. Louis Graveraet Kaufman, president of Chatham, was to be made chairman of the executive committee. General Samuel McRoberts...
...sort of thing went on. A man who had sat long in a cafe would suddenly spring up upon his chair and shout out, "Vive L'Empire," it didn't matter much which, and straightway thirty more would leap up on their chairs, some laughing, some weeping in an excess of patriotic zoal all shouting in fury. Soldiers walked about in gorgeous, gilt buttoned uniforms kicking children into the gutters. Women rode in the Bois in tight waists and hats which the world was unfortunately destined to remember three quarters of a century later. Ambassadors clicked polished heels and bowed...