Word: outright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...theatres throughout the U. S. audiences heard this message delivered through Fox Movietone. The birthday gift was advice that Fox patrons buy outright as many shares as they could afford of Fox Theatres Corp.* operating and holding company for his gigantic chain. As special inducement they were told of plans for future expansion and the large earnings that were possible...
Vickers, Ltd. Disclosed last week was the fact that Vickers, Ltd., England's great shipbuilding and ordnance concern, owns outright The Airship Guarantee Co., Ltd,, which has built and last week was ready to test-fly the British dirigible R-100, ordered by the British government. (The British Air Ministry itself is building the Commonwealth's other dirigible, R-101.) When the Government accepts the R-100 it will immediately resell her to Airship Guarantee Co. at half the contract price on condition that she will be used on experimental long-distance passenger flights within the Empire...
...advocated both by himself and Mrs. Flagg (famine relief, laborers' welfare, Negro social advancement, free speech, printing and assemblage). Flagg relatives contested that the "trust" was too indefinite, that they were entitled to the property. Last week the Massachusetts Supreme Court held that the bequest had been made outright to Mr. Villard, to do with as he wishes...
...buying reporters, editors and news agencies. "We believe that Congress, if it will, can find a way to stop these great interstate monopolies from using their huge financial resources, contributed by the people, to destroy the free press by means that range from secret bribery of newspaper employes to outright purchase of newspapers themselves." Said the New York Times: "The whole foundation of honest journalism is laid on the principle that newspaper ownership should have no interest save in publishing facts and making fair editorial comment on them. Ownership that has a financial interest in the public domain, over which...
...Ochs, 71, is still in supreme command of the Times. Virtually all the stock -and there are no bonds or mortgages-is owned outright by him, his immediate family and his employes, past and present. He retains his Chattanooga paper because it was his first. Once he was tempted to buy and merge other papers. He took over two Philadelphia sheets and made the Public Ledger, which he sold to Magazine Tycoon Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis...