Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crying for quick action, 82% of the people, according to the latest Gallup poll, favor outright imprisonment of guilty "blacketeers." But Britain's eminent Solicitor General Sir William Jowitt, who knows more than anyone about the extent and ramifications of the black market, favored a shorter shrift. In a speech at Ashton-under-Lyne, he declared: "We have played with this thing long enough. ... I, for my part, would like to see war courts set up and people found guilty of the crime ordered to face a firing squad...
...expects to take over its first $500,000 Constellation this June. When Constellations begin to roll off the Lockheed line, TWA hopes to get 40, Pan American 40. But the Army needs transports; and these will be the best transports going. The Army may not snatch the planes outright, may ask the airlines to operate them as air-cruising taxis for troops. TWA President Frye claims that 40 Constellations could transport 16,000 troops to Alaska in 26 hours, 7,500 troops to Hawaii in 48, make a round trip from Boston to Bristol, England...
...into a sheik's tent in the [British-controlled] Jordan valley and have one's coffee served by a black slave. Don't let us be too virtuous about these things." What worried Lord Wedgwood was the fact Britain had not seized Italian property in Ethiopia outright...
...asked Secretary of the Navy Knox and Secretary of War Stimson to let them retire from their country's service. If the President, on the secretaries' recommendation, said yes, each would get a life pension of $6,000 a year. If he decided instead to dismiss them outright, the.y would have to be vindicated by a court-martial before they could claim their retirement pay. Both the Army and the Navy hoped that their request would be granted. Both services felt that the scapegoats had been pelted enough...
Ever since France fell, the State Department has followed a tortuous course, trying to hold Vichy in the narrow channel between collaboration with the Axis and outright surrender. Purpose: to keep the Nazis from getting the French Fleet...