Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British investments in privately owned U.S. corporations, has enlisted Jesse Jones's aid. Along with Sir Frederick Phillips, Under Secretary of the British Treasury, Sir Edward arranged the deal in which Jones lent British-American Tobacco Co. $40,000,000 on its U.S. subsidiary (Brown & Williamson), thus averted outright sale. If the Norman-Peacock-Phillips axis is broken, Secretary Morgenthau may still win his fight with Jones...
...first outright declaration by an organized group of U.S. educators for full U.S. participation in the war against Naziism came from the advocates of Progressive Education-men who had long been considered education's most confirmed pacifists...
...second-floor study in the White House faced the strangest and perhaps the most momentous turn of World War II. It was something which he had not dared hope for. And it might turn out to be the luckiest military break for the U.S.-outside of an outright defeat for Germany in battle-that the President could have hoped...
...seriously damaged battleship, cruiser, aircraft carrier or merchant ship is, until it has been repaired, no better than a ship sunk. And every ship restored to service before overburdened British shipyards could do so adds to Britain's strength for the interim as much as the outright gift of such a ship from...
...Music, it was announced yesterday by Howard Barlow, conductor of the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. The work, "A Nine-Minute Overture," was played during Barlow's regular Sunday afternoon radio program. Instead of the customary privilege of studying at the American Academy in Rome, Shapero will receive $1,000 outright...