Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this came about quite naturally. The outbreak of war cut off Europe's wine supply, left the import divisions of most U.S. distillers with a crack sales and distributing setup but nothing to do. So the distillers began switching to domestic wines, bought wineries outright because it was far cheaper than starting from scratch. Then last August WPB stopped all whiskey production, ordered the distillers to convert to war alcohol (TIME, Sept. 14). The distillers looked over their whiskey stocks, discovered they had 480,000,000 bbl., enough to last only two years unless the U.S. stops drinking...
Though this sugar was bought outright, the U.S. has not been able to take all of it. Shortage of shipping forced this country to reduce its normal consumption and to enforce rationing. Moreover, sugar has been taken in large quantities from Hawaii and from Puerto Rico, where some U.S. ships have to go anyway, and pampered domestic beet and cane producers turned in a record crop. Hence the U.S. carryover in Cuba now amounts to about 1,700,000 tons...
...almost unnoticed when it was issued early in January; to Manuel Quezon and all Filipinos who heard of it, it was patent good news. After one year of occupation, the Jap had seized almost everything of value: railroads, utilities, industrial plants, mines, rice and sugar plantations. Some were taken outright; others were acquired by a show of legality, by stock purchases paid for with paper yen. Craftily the Jap had laid plans to hold economic control of the islands, even though he should lose...
...money ($1,500,000), Rubberman O'Neil got a going concern which has made a respectable profit for the last 20 years. Founded in 1922 by sharp, balding John Shepard III, the network owns four stations outright (Boston's WNAC, Providence's WEAN, Worcester's WAAB, Bridgeport's WICC), has contracts with 17 others. It is, in turn, affiliated with the Mutual network...
Predictions, 1943. As the New Year bowed in, most "experts" refrained from outright prognostications. One who did not was the New York Sun's "Sun Dial" Columnist H. I. Phillips. Sample fate-proof Phillips predictions...