Word: outright
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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John D. Rockefeller Jr. last week wiped the village of Eastview off the map of New York, by outright purchase of that once flourishing Colonial hamlet on the outskirts of Tarrytown. Mr. Rockefeller paid more than $700,000 for the privilege of ousting 46 families, so that the new main line of the Putnam division of the New York Central R.R. may run along what was once Eastview's main street, instead of through the Rockefeller estate, "Pocantico Hills." At the same time he rid his vicinity of a mushroom congerie of dance halls, picnic groves, gas stations...
...investor with $5,000 cash can buy outright about 55 shares of the ''average" stock, since the price of all the issues on the Exchange board averages about $90. Yet this same investor could not purchase even a single share of Manhattan's First National Bank, which last week rose 1,200 points in two days and reached a quotation of $7,300 a share. As George F. Baker, board chairman of First National, is said to hold 20,000 shares (there are only 100,000 outstanding) the 1,200-point rise gave him a paper profit...
...name has frequently been mentioned as being prominently identified with Chrysler Corp. and Radio. As a matter of fact I have never owned and do not own a single share of Chrysler Corporation stock, and the stock in the Radio Corp. which I hold was purchased outright by me a long while ago and held as an investment...
What the Roman Catholic Church is believed to be to Nominee Smith, the Anti-Saloon League of America is known to be to Nominee Hoover-his largest organized backing outside of his political party. That the League would work for Hooverism was obvious. That it would endorse him outright was uncertain. Never before had it openly chosen between Presidential candidates...
This year the Midwest loomed more important than ever because it was throughout the Midwest that the Hoover nomination was most bitterly opposed. In Ohio there was Willis; in Indiana, Watson; in Illinois, Lowden; in Nebraska, Norris; in Kansas, Curtisall, except Lowden and Curtis, more downright anti-Hooverish than outright ambitious...