Word: outright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...factories, farms and forest land had been confiscated outright...
...finally let U. S. businessmen know what they might expect in the way of industrial conscription: little or none, if they behave according to Government lights. If they behave otherwise (i.e. balk at taking defense contracts on Government terms), President Roosevelt can invoke conscription in its stiffest form: immediate, outright seizure of plants and products, to be paid for when and as he pleases...
...Gowanda, N. Y., died a man who had made between $18,000,000 and $25,000,000 out of glue. His name was Richard Wilhelm, and few people outside Gowanda had ever heard of him. Except for a few shares of preferred stock, he owned Peter Cooper Corp. outright, and that company makes more animal glue (a $17,000,000 a year business) than all its competitors combined...
Biggest Catch of all were copies of a Nazi manifesto, so inflammatory that authorities no longer described the suspects vaguely as fifth columnists (as such liable only to deportation) but as outright traitors involved in un caso de pis tola (a case for summary execution...
...controlled vast Astra Romana oil company. Rumania expelled twelve French oil executives. Week earlier Rumania had ordered all tank cars in the possession of oil companies put at the disposal of the State railways. Allied-owned and chartered tankers on the Rumanian Danube were halted, a probable prelude to outright requisitioning. All this indicated that Germany would eventually receive practically all Rumanian oil exports (4,177,554 metric tons in 1939) except that from U. S.-owned wells...