Word: outright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...croaker was President Wendell Lewis Willkie of $1,000,000,000 Commonwealth & Southern Corp. A shaggy lawyer with a sharp tongue, Wendell Willkie has not only shepherded his colleagues through their court battles but has maintained a spectacular standing offer to sell vast C. & S. outright to the Government before it is destroyed piecemeal. Last week Mr. Willkie was again yanked to Washington by a House & Senate committee. Nominally he went to explain what was holding up the negotiations for TVA's purchase of Tennessee Electric Power Co., one of four C. & S. operating subsidiaries in the Tennessee Valley...
...Many used to sneer that the adopted-daughter system was Atatürk's method of keeping a harem after he had abolished outright polygamy. Atatürk's daughters, however, were invariably plain girls. The Ghazi, not particular in his choice of women, preferred painted cheeks and lips. By giving talented young women the protection of his name he could set them to work safely on jobs never before attempted by a Turkish woman and thus symbolize women's new freedom...
...Carletons-card-sharping Colonel Anthony (Roland Young), mercenary Marmy (Billie Burke), fortune-hunting Rick (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and gold-digging George-Ann (Janet Gaynor)-are a family of international rogues united strongly by their common belief in and proficiency at the more polite forms of mooching, chiseling and outright thievery...
...appeared last week that all these things combined have produced a food scarcity which, if not remedied, may very well force Leftist Spain to agree to a "Munich" mediation if not outright surrender...
...surpluses. If these inducements do not work the Act provides for compulsory controls-marketing quotas (such as are now in force for cotton and tobacco) invoked after two-thirds of the growers approve in a referendum. If crop prices continue falling however, Mr. Wallace declared himself opposed to outright price fixing on the basis of production cost, which "would soak the consumer, sink the farmer, and mean uncontrolled production...