Word: excess
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other magazine in the world took in in 1937 and is a record surpassed only by the Post itself. At the same time the Post's weekly circulation, tirelessly solicited by 50,000 boy salesmen and 2,025 telephone & field canvassers throughout the U. S., was in excess of 3,000,000- 157,456,000 for the year-which is more copies than any other magazine ever sold in any year anywhere. During the first ten months of the year, the man who had taken over the Post when it was a little paste-up literary journal...
...present slump. When a corporation is uncertain about the future, the argument ran, it does not stock up heavily with materials and supplies. Inference was that the 1937 slump was caused not by fear but by overconfidence. Since business economists have generally held that 1937 was not marked by excess inventories, the Government's conclusions if not its figures were almost certain to be challenged...
...chief types of legislation were possible: "voluntary" crop control-giving benefit payments to cooperate in crop reduction programs and giving loans on amounts withheld from the market: and compulsory control-levying penalties on excess production. Secretary Wallace observed in his annual report last month that although voluntary methods were preferable, compulsory methods should be invoked when crop reserves on hand grew too large. So Ed O'Neal and his Federation helped draft the Pope-McGill Bill accepting the compulsory principle wholeheartedly, setting permissible crop reserves at the low levels they considered necessary to maintain prices...
...immense, the Marshall Field manufacturing division took a whale of a loss on its huge cotton orders. What was worse, Mr. McKinsey, for all his theoretical skill, foresaw no business depression ahead and the manufacturing division kept on turning out goods at top speed all last spring. When excess inventory caught up with the Fieldcrest mills, they were definitely hard hit. The manufacturing division is now contracting like a scared shellfish...
Written by Associate Justice Benjamin Cardozo, who was recuperating from a heavy cold, read by Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, the majority opinion found that the Secretary of the Treasury "did not act in excess of his lawful powers by issuing the calls without further authority from the Congress than was conferred by the statutes under which the bonds were issued." Diminished by one, when Hugo LaFayette Black replaced Willis Van Devanter, the Court's conservative minority dissented as sharply this week as it did in 1935. Said explosive Justice James Clark McReynolds for the minority: "If you will...