Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Backing up the optimism, cheery first-quarter earnings reports continued to pour out, chiefly as a result of the end of the excess-profits tax. Such rubber-industry giants as Goodrich and U.S. Rubber both announced higher profits than in 1953. Standard Oil Co. (N.J.) brought in earnings of $146 million, up $8,000,000 from last year; Westinghouse zoomed from $16.8 million to $26.3 million...
...national craze for Scrabble has done nothing else, it has proved to many an American that he has a wonky (feeble) vocabulary. Confronted by too many x's or z's, he is apt to be a coof (blockhead), and left with an excess of vowels, he can appear downright dowf (stupid). Last week help came from the colleges, in the form of a special lexicon called What's That Word? (The Times Press, Wakefield, R.I.; 40?). Compiled by two veteran theme correctors-Martha Wright of the University of Massachusetts and Tony Hofford of the University...
Everyone knew that first-quarter sales would be off, compared with 1953. But what about earnings? For weeks, investors have been bidding stock prices up to new highs, staunchly believing that profits would hold up largely because of the death of the excess profits tax. Last week the news in the first batch of quarterly earnings and estimates was good (and the Dow-Jones industrials rose another four points, to 313.7).Items...
...College Board is in a very real sense the father of the seven year old ETS, It was the CEEB, which in 1947 turned over all of its assets in excess of $300,000 to the ETS "in the belief and confidence" that it "would make good tests against which those of other...
Speaker Joseph W. Martin hoped to postpone the issue until next year. He was in no mood to repeat last year's performance on the excess-profits tax, when he had to wrest working control of the Ways & Means Committee away from Dan Reed. This year old Dan has gone along with the Administration's social-security expansion program. Martin does not want to repay Reed by opening an all-out fight against him on tariffs...