Word: outright
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...grow for the most part on Crown land, land technically belonging to King George, but whose administration and revenue are in the hands of the provincial governments. Greatest Canadian papermaker is the U. S.-owned International Paper & Power Co. This gargantuan corporation controls under long-term leases, or owns outright, forest land equal in area to New Hampshire, Vermont and Massachusetts. Despite the enormous consumption of newsprint in the U. S. and Canada, paper production is still greater. Prices are low. For the past year the I. P. & P. and its smaller competitors have been paying provincial governments toll...
...have students reside in Houses and Dormitories exclusively. If this should be the case, what are the clubs going to do with their clubhouses, which represent an investment of hundreds of thousands of dollars? Probably very few of these houses are endowed, and even those that are owned outright will be a terrific financial burden to their owners, if it is impossible to make the houses self-sustaining through rental income. Very few organizations are financially independent to the extent that they can afford to use their houses exclusively for social purposes. A certain income is mandatory, which means that...
...program. When Senator Jones's turn came to speak for the Senate, he repeated the historic phrase: "Mr. President, the Senate has completed its work-" Then he qualified: "-as far as possible." It was all the others present on this solemn occasion could do to keep from outright laughter. Senator Jones, according to Congressman Tilson, wore his "best poker face." President Hoover rounded out the ritual by saying: "I thank you. I have no further communication to make to the Congress at this time." The comedy of the White House scene was furnished by the fact that the Senate...
Last week Mr. Raskob replied that the Robinson criticism was "false, vicious, wholly unwarranted and manifestly a political attack." Said he: "I do not gamble in the stockmarket. I have always purchased stocks outright ... in companies that I thought had an attractive future and have held them until such time as I thought they were selling for all they were worth...
...What had prompted this Utterance was the growing defeatist attitude of the regular Republican cohorts in the Senate. There had been talk of outright surrender to the coalition of Democrats and Progressive Republicans, of adjourning the Senate Nov. 15 and leaving the Tariff Bill supine upon a deserted field. Such futility had pervaded the Republican camp that Brigadier Hiram Johnson of California remarked to his comrades-in-arms...