Word: outright
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...refused to permit free inspection of their territory. They compromised by permitting truce teams to operate in five specified check points. The Neutral Nations Supervisory Commission is made up of Swiss, Swedes, Poles and Czechs. The first two nations make a basic policy of neutralism; the second two are outright Communist puppets. On the truce commission, Polish and Czech members help sabotage the neutrals' efforts to enforce the truce terms...
...cover the entire banking field. Last week, National City's Shepherd and First National's President Alexander Nagle published the banns. Though it was described as a merger (the fourth get-together of big New York banks in less than five months), the deal amounted to an outright sale. Under an agreement still to be approved by stockholders, National City will pay $165 million for the 300,000 shares of First National on the market (price per share: $550). The new bank will be known as First National City Bank of New York, with Shepherd staying...
...real trouble with the French is that the people as a whole have ceased to become Christian without yet becoming outright atheistic. No wonder they are proving useless for either God or the Devil...
...internal plots and counterplots. Soldiers in the same unit often do not have the same type weapons. The chief of staff, handsome, greying General Bambang Sugeng, has had no military training. Many of the army's seven territorial commanders operate, in fact, as private warlords, some in almost outright rebellion. The worst of the army's difficulties, however, can be traced directly to Defense Minister Iwa Kusumasumantri, a bull-necked Marxist of 55, who professes not to be a Communist, though as a young man he went to meetings in Moscow, and in 1946 was jailed...
...really a transition during which the billions of dollars worth of spending by the Government is transferred to spending by millions of private individuals." As income from salaries and wages dropped by $2 billion, the take-home pay remained almost the same because of outright tax cuts and a drop in personal income-tax payments as the progressive tax structure worked in reverse. Similarly, while corporate earnings before taxes dropped at an annual rate of $5 billion, declining income-tax payments and the death of the excess-profits tax cut corporate taxes by almost the same amount...