Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demand for overland transportation of coal and coke; 35,000 will be low-sided gondolas, 10,000 will be flat cars, both of which types are ideal for carrying tanks, artillery, other heavy pieces peculiar to war production. These cars, purchased at the railroads' own expense, are an outright contribution to the war effort; the carriers already have a surplus of such equipment for their expected peacetime needs. New boxcars, which the railroads can always use, are limited to about...
...Commercial Investment Trust Corp., world's biggest sales financier, last week jumped into a new and strange field: manufacturing. With six pages of mimeographed handout it announced outright purchase of Boston's 67-year-old Holtzer-Cabot Electric Co., producer of custom-made electric motors and appliances. Net cost to C.I.T...
Less than the Truth. If people generally are confused about U.S. fighters, they can blame a record of overstatement, outright misstatement, and pettifogging pride, which does no credit to General Arnold, the Army, the manufacturers...
...bought it outright and a mechanic drove him home. Wee Boy did the chauffering and things went smoothly until they got a flat tire. A mechanic came down from Memphis to fix the first one. Old Man Town chopped the second one off. After that they got along for a while on the naked...
...between the wars with the Finns and with the Nazis that Semion Timoshenko cemented his reputation, received his highest honors. He came as near as he ever dared, and nearer than most of his brother officers, to outright conflict with the Communist Party. Reorganizing the army to correct the defects of the Finnish campaign, he booted out the Party commissars who had been attached to every important Army unit. With General Georgy Zhukov, a reputedly brilliant newcomer to the High Command, he simplified Army organization, improved communications, cut tape which in any other army would be called red. Zhukov last...