Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suggested that, if a road reduced a freight rate after accepting the carload increase, the cut be made from the basic rate and not from the sur-rate, thereby insuring a full flow of excess revenue into the credit pool. The A. of R. E. petition protested this arrangement on the ground that roads were justified in cutting some rates to retain business and should not be asked to contribute any part of their present revenue to the pool...
...give them part of their salaries in dollars. At the present time salaries are paid wholly in rubles, which are of greatly decreased value outside of the country and yet even under these conditions the number of Americans willing to pay their own passages is far in excess of the demand...
...addition to their regular quarterly purchases, 15% of their annual requirement of materials, deliveries to be spread over six months. In addition he wanted every family in the U. S. to buy $79 worth of merchandise over normal needs for three months. His point: Buying in advance & in excess would insure workmen of continued employment for a definite period, enable them to help conditions by increasing their expenditures. The committee found the plan worth submitting to the public to determine its reaction...
...tradition has grown up among the motion picture companies that the life of a newspaperman is one abounding in liquid refreshment and lacking in any excess of work. The reporter as typified by the talking screen is most cynical, always ready with a laughable quip, almost scholarly, inclined to be untidy in his dress, and only at home in a speakeasy. "Platinum Blonde" is a picture that conforms with this tradition, but there seems to be more attention to newspaper routine, and less drinking than usual...
...spirit of fair play" that motivated British voters in returning the Labour Party to power, but it does seem a shame that this same spirit should not have swept them on to giving the Labour government the "full rein" mentioned in the editorial. Perhaps such an excess of "fair play" would not have been in accord with what the editorial writer so aptly calls "the fundamental soundness of the English nation...