Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Said an official announcement: "This action has been prompted largely by improved earnings since the first quarter of the year. Net earnings for the third quarter, which is normally one of the poorest quarters of the year, are estimated at slightly in excess of the proposed dividend." In the third quarter of last year NCR earned 42? on the A stock. During the first quarter of this year NCR lost $373,000 but the next three months turned the deficit into a $491,000 profit, or 41? a share...
...dominated" U. S. economic recovery, that he hoped for a revival of foreign trade soon. Much was made of the fact that the treasury had some $3,500,000,000 in "accumulated fat" on its bones-that is, reductions in the public debt during the last prosperous decade in excess of the annual amounts specified by Congress...
Navy, Goodyear-Zeppelin Corp. is liable for a penalty of $5 per Ib. for overweight up to 5,000 Ib., but last week it was questionable whether a penalty would be assessed since some of the excess may be chargeable to changes in Navy specifications. Said Rear Admiral William A. Moffett: "The Akron has been splendidly constructed, better than any dirigible within our knowledge. The slight excess in her weight ... is a direct conversion into increased safety and military factors...
...before yesterday." There was a nine-course dinner at the Grand Hotel, champagne spurned again by the flyers. Two hours rest, then out to the airport soon after midnight. Here the take-off was delayed because Russian mechanics, confusing gallons and litres, had overloaded the plane, and the excess fuel had to be siphoned out. It was 5 a. m. when the Winnie Mae roared into the East again. Still clipping off 150 m.p. it fol- lowed the Trans-Sib over the Ural mountains, landed after eleven hours at Novo Sibirsk. Another respite of eight hours, then on to Irkutsk...
Reporting on foreign trade last week the Department of Commerce said that the total value of exports in May was the poorest since October 1914. Yet the excess of exports over imports (''balance of trade") continued large; ran at $193,700,000 for the first five months. The value of imports and exports alike is about 36% below a year ago, although prices have fallen only some 20% during the period. The Annalist Index of business activity, adjusted for seasonal changes and trends, put May activity at 77.5% against April's 80.8%, January...