Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this next meeting of European countries," said he, "France will go with a constructive plan for the absorption of the excess harvests of these countries, for financing their agriculture by loans, and for the organization in Europe, which is totally without it, of a system of production and exchange...
...difficult to understand why this character about which he wrote his most incisive criticism, of all those of Shakespeare, was most attractive to Coleridge. The present editor has put it very succinctly when he writes of Coleridge's diagnosis of the prince's irresolution: "In his own excess of thought over action he found the key to Hamlet's soul." And when he falls short of his customary excellence as a critic, as indeed he does in his estimate of Falstaff, the reason is still the same, that which his own nature lacked, in this case a real sense...
...Commission last week moved again to enforce a section of U. S. law which it considers unenforceable. Section 15a of the Transportation Act of 1920 instructs the I. C. C. to "recapture" from all railroads, on the basis of their final valuations, one-half of all annual profits in excess of 6% of the road's investment. Funds thus assessed are to be pooled to help less prosperous carriers. In its last annual report the I. C. C., after a decade's experience with recapture, condemned Section 15a as "open to serious practical objections," difficult to administrate, productive of expensive...
...valued the R. F. & P. at $29.400.000 for 1922, $30,100,000 for 1923. Section 15a allowed the road to earn $3,570,000 for those two years. But its books showed a profit of $5,353,393.68 or an excess of $1,783,393.68 above the legal rate of 6%. The Commission ordered it to turn back one-half of that amount?...
...Instead of a small independent carrier the I. C. C. was really tackling the six biggest and most powerful railroads in the East?Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio, Chesapeake & Ohio, Atlantic Coast Line, Seaboard Air Line and Southern? joint proprietors of the R. F. & P. and sole beneficiaries of its excess profits. Counting on the I. C. C.'s discouraged attitude on recapture, these major carriers were ready to fight to the legal limit for their prosperous little subsidiary...