Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...current costs). Jeeps, rifles, ammunition, some types of artillery, and destroyer escorts (the largest ships to be sent to Europe under MAP), would come from the armed forces reserves, established after the war. They would be charged against the program at replacement cost. Other items would come from excess stocks...
...Thanksgiving? U.S. excess stocks were plentiful, if badly out of balance. The U.S. had plenty of antiaircraft guns (many of them without fire-control equipment or prime movers). It had thousands of 81-mm. mortars, a good many excess tanks (needing guns and radios before shipment), 155-mm. howitzers, scout cars, machine guns and military radios. In all, some $450 million worth of excess materiel was scheduled for Western Europe's armies. Only the cost of rehabilitation-estimated at $77 million-would be charged...
McCloy stood alone: he wanted to give Germany a fair chance at world markets because the U.S. foots the bill for Germany's excess of imports over exports...
They documented more or less factual claims to superior quality ("Tests by independent research laboratories prove . . ."). They sponsored contests, told jokes, wrote essays, and often told a straight story about the things they had to sell. They appealed - and thus redeemed their sins of excess - to all men's desire for better things by dazzling them with glowing pictures of the new & better things American industry was making. But always present was advertising's simplest and most potent symbol, the female figure...
Eddie Waitkus, Philadelphia first-baseman, left Chicago's Billings Hospital to go back to the Quaker City with noi trace of bitterness toward Bobby-Soxer Ruth Steinhagen, who, in an excess of girlish adoration, put a .22-caliber slug through his right lung last June 14. "I only saw her once after she shot me," said Eddie, "that was in a Chicago court where they sent her to the booby-hatch. It's just an unfortunate thing...