Word: actually
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...economic problem'' (TIME, July 18), Franklin Roosevelt said: "If the people of the State of Georgia want definite action . . . they must send to . . . Congress Senators and Representatives who are willing to stand up and fight night and day for Federal statutes drawn to meet actual needs...
...army matériel. So far the Department has found no way to get around the cost-plus contract of World War ill-fame. But the 400 different contract forms in use then have been reduced to five, in the hope that simple phrasing and fore-analysis of actual plant costs may hold profiteering to a minimum...
...week, the U. S. Navy reported a successful dive to 402 ft., using the helium-oxygen mixture. The Navy record was still 18 ft. short of Nohl's mark. The Navy also announced an "artificial dive" in a pressure chamber duplicating the pressure 500 ft. down, indicating that actual dives to that grim depth may soon be accomplished...
...usual, this was to take the form of open compliance, actual recalcitrance...
Weighing 250 lb., a hard-driving man with unaccountable periods of complete inertia, Crocker was in charge of the actual construction of the Central Pacific, boasted that he found fault with everything and that everybody was afraid of him. But on payday he rode through the construction crews with 150 lb. of gold and silver, paid workmen himself. Because he admired the endurance of his Chinese cook, he favored Chinese crews over his partners' objections. When the Central Pacific was stopped by wild mountain country (during 1866 only 28 miles of track were laid), the rival Union Pacific...