Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Viscose common stock) reported only a $6,160,000 profit. This meant that the parent company would have shown a loss of $1,725,000 had it not been for Viscose. But Courtaulds still has an interest in next week's stock sale. Besides making an outright payment of $36,456,000, the bankers promised the British Treasury to try to sell the company to the public within six months, split on a 90-10 basis all proceeds above the initial payment. The Treasury will then keep the dollars, pay Courtaulds their equivalent in pounds. Should a weak market...
...FORTUNE'S businessmen believed the U.S. could do business with a Hitlerized Europe on a pre-war basis; another 5.3% thought the nation could get along with Hitler without worrying much about attack, by switching to barter methods. A whopping 84.1% foresaw danger in degrees ranging up to outright disaster: 36.5% believed that the U.S. would have to adopt barter methods and maintain a costly military program; 22.6% believed the nation would have to arm at top speed for an eventual war with the Nazis; 25% believed every nation in the world would face continuous conflict and economic chaos...
...cakes, then slumped when the novelty wore off. Reeves Lewenthal thereupon took to the mails, and business began to boom. To his 26 artists Lewenthal paid a flat rate of $200 for each print plate; those who sold more carried those who sold less. Since Lewenthal owned the plates outright, there was no limit to the number of prints he could make from each plate. When the issues from ten of an artist's plates sold out, his fee was raised to $300; when he had doubled this output, it was raised to $400. Meanwhile Impresario Lewenthal scouted around...
Britain will add some 2,000,000 small-wage earners to the tax rolls: personal exemptions were cut from ?170 to ?140 ($560) for married taxpayers, from ?100 to ?80 ($320) for single men. But these additional taxes will not be an outright gift to the Government. They will be credited to the taxpayer's account in postal savings after the war. Thus Sir Kingsley produced what was, in effect, a long-expected compulsory war-savings system for Britons...
...variety of methods were used. Some departments introduced outright course reduction, permitting students to enroll for less than the normal number of subjects in the final year. Others inaugurated a so-called "thesis course," counting for half-credit...