Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hollywood did its heaviest backing in years, its heaviest buying in history: 20th Century-Fox paid an estimated $300,000 for The Eve of St. Mark, $265,000 for Something for the Boys; Warner Bros, advanced $250,000 against all profits on This Is the Army, paid $250,000 outright for Dark Eyes, The Doughgirls; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $260,000 for Without Love. Columnist Leonard Lyons quoted Hollywood's Nunnally Johnson: "All the film companies got together and agreed not to pay less than $250,000 for any play." With gas rationed, Broadway expects a terrific summer. Cracked Walter...
...Almost all of the $2 billion of U.S. Government wartime loans and outright payments for strategic Latin American goods has gone into productive goods like highways, railroads, manufacturing and mining plants. Not more than 10% of the loans of the '20s were of a self-liquidating variety...
This week Congressmen threatened to sabotage Prentiss Brown's new program. But Brown was confident that he would succeed. First move will be to get the RFC to pay the subsidies. Second move will be to carry the fight to Congress itself and get outright appropriations. Prentiss Brown pointed out that a provision for subsidies is contained in the original price-control...
...comparison with Russian single-mindedness, the Chinese press has an almost democratic diversity and vivacity. No newspapers have been suppressed outright except the "mosquito" tabloids which before the war achieved a lewdness beyond description. Competing for readers in Chungking are 13 dailies, including the Communist paper, the "liberal" Ta Rung Pao, the Roman Catholic Social Welfare Daily (Yih Shih Pao), the racy evening tabloid, New People's Daily (Hsin Min Pao), and the official Kuomintang and Army sheet, Central Daily News (Chung Yang Jih Pao), which has a partly free circulation of 150,000-perhaps more than...
instance, boiled down to an outright attack on the New Deal...