Word: excessive
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three states which were missing from the School's enrollment last year, South Dakota, Idaho, and Nevada, have sent two, three, and two students respectively. This summer Massachusetts has the largest enrollment, 1542, an increase in excess of 300 from last year. Also represented are 258 students from 55 foreign countries...
Ransom is one of the foremost members of the group of poets who founded the Fugitive magazine, a publication which flourished in Nashville, Tenn., from 1922 to 1925. The movement was a reaction against the excess intellectualism of Northern poets. As one critic has noted, the Tennessee poets "reaffirmed for the Southern poets the right to sing of nature, harmony, metaphysics." They sought, the critic notes, a "dreamy sentimentalism and provincial elegy." This movement began among students at the University of Tennessee, and included, along with Ransom, Robert Penn Warren, Laura Riding, Merrill Moore, Sidney Metron Hirsch, and--familiar...
...investors switched to "hardware" stocks, Lorillard dropped 3½ to 67¼; General Foods slid 1¼ to 62¾. "A whole new set of uncertainties now faces us," said John W. Finley, vice president of Blair & Co. "A stock like Lorillard would really be hurt by an excess profits tax, because such a tax penalizes a company with sharply rising earnings...
...appliance industry, said one General Electric man, the markdowns are so extreme that "you can now buy a refrigerator, washer, dishwasher for fewer actual dollars than you could ten years ago-and that's including inflation." There has been some trimming in other areas. Retailers with excess stocks of room air-conditioners cut prices on older models as much as 25% ; Sears, Roebuck and Co. cut its power tools as much as 30%; cotton mills chopped 5% from their prices; and Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. reduced prices on their major line of tube-type tires...
Renegotiation's bitterest enemies are the planemakers, whose defense-produced net income is rarely more than 3% of sales. Nevertheless, during fiscal 1957, the Board ruled they had made $33.6 million in excessive profits. Boeing has been ordered to give back $27.5 million (less tax credit), and lesser amounts are demanded from North American, Douglas, Lockheed and most of the others. The planemakers maintain that the Renegotiation Act is unconstitutional because it levies what amounts to a tax without a rate-and thus deprives the taxpayer of due process. The law provides no formula to measure excess profits. Instead...