Word: excessively
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orderly fashion, deflation continued to melt away some of the economy's excess fat. The cost of living had dropped enough by last week to bring pay cuts, ranging from 1? to 3? an hour, for more than 2,000,000 workers, whose escalator contracts are tied to the cost of living. But most workers accepted the cut without protest...
...Texans not knowing how to ride horses, well, that isn't exactly true, but why should a rancher with excess cash ride one anyway when he can ride in a Cadillac? . . . BILL F. BROWN Longview...
Moreover, Hopkins has other promising irons in the fire. Another General Dynamics subsidiary, Canadair, has the exclusive contract for building F-86 jet fighters in its Canada plant for the R.C.A.F. Since Canada has no excess-profits tax, this contract has proved so lucrative that Canadair alone contributed 70% of General Dynamics' gross of $134,500,000 last year (net: $4,900,000). Thus, Jay Hopkins, a man few know, has become boss of a major North American armament complex...
...arrows last week pointed this way: 1) House leadership will let Dan Reed's bill come out in mid-May, and the House will pass it overwhelmingly; 2) the Senate will study the bill for a month, then rewrite it to postpone cuts in both income and excess-profits taxes until next January; 3) the House will scream but, under pressure from the Administration to balance the budget, will finally pass the Senate version...
Winthrop has all types, but none to excess. To be sure there is still a rather large sporting element and a rather small percentage of scholars, but on the whole a careful balance is sought...