Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rate of $112,000,000 per year. This fund totalled $934,000,000, including a $112,000,000 appropriation which Congress advanced from next year to this. The part which Bonus loans play in the deficit is limited to this $112,000,000 out of current receipts plus the excess of the outlay over the reserve fund-about $156,000,000. The Treasury deficit last week reached $1,000,792,430. Before the end of the fiscal year (June 30) it was expected to rise to about $1,400,000,000. Tax receipts and foreign debt payments due June...
...There was not a single witness," declared Mr. Baruch, "who did not propose price-fixing through some means. The excess profits tax standing alone as a means of equalizing the burdens of war is fatally defective because it aggravates inflation. The fixation of a few individual prices is a wrong war policy because it would be confiscatory, because it has only a fragmentary effect on inflation and because it is more difficult than general stabilization...
...moral side, Russia's Lubimov pointed out that Tsarist Russia exported nearly twice as much wheat as her nearest competitor, and that no one called this morally wrong. Today Soviet Russia cannot by the wildest excess of dumping export as much wheat as her largest competitor, which, of course, is Canada.* Therefore, in Moscow's view, whatever Soviet Russia does or can do in the way of wheat exportation, she will be not less, but more generous to her competitors than Tsarist Russia...
...filling foreign munitions contracts were accused of fostering U. S. participation to increase their own profits. After the Armistice this skepticism of U. S. war motives was increased by the presence of Government contractors who had grown inordinately rich, big corporations from which the U. S. could never recover excess war profits. Veterans, drafted to fight in France at $30 per month, returned to the U. S. in disgruntled amazement to find free workers drawing $300 per month in safe factories. Bankers seemed more prosperous than ever...
...from 18 to 45 (the World War draft age was 21 to 30). There would be no exemptions, only deferments. Six field armies totalling 4,000,000 men would be in service within a year, leaving a reserve force of 7,000,000. A new wartime contract to eliminate excess profits would be used for industrial procurement. In readiness are 15,000 manufacturing plants to which the War Department can go immediately for the 4,000 items on its "shopping list." (The 1918 list was 700,000 articles.) Great cantonments would not be constructed but "full utilization of Federal, State...