Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...buna program's troubles stemmed from such high considerations. Some plain old-fashioned competitive jealousies were also involved. The refiners had borne the brunt of butadiene research, were miffed because the rubber companies got buna from butadiene on. The chemical companies, scheduled to produce styrene, alcohol and alcohol-butadiene, didn't want to share secrets with the oil companies who had the original know-how. The little rubber companies were sore because they felt the Big Four of Rubber were hogging their end of the program...
...going to profit from Japan's new "Co-Prosperity Sphere" was plain last week to the natives in Japanese-occupied areas of New Guinea. The following Army & Navy proclamations were picked up in Australia: > No commodities may be bought, sold or moved without written permission...
...Dogs. From such reports seeping out of Europe, it was plain that Germany was planning to eat this winter, whether or not the rest of Europe starved. Not so plain, however, was the order that all pet dogs in The Netherlands, if they are 18 inches or more in height, must be turned over to German occupying authorities. No doubt it also had something to do with the master-race theory...
These announcements, coming from Elmer Davis, sounded sensible enough, but the set-up still seemed mighty complicated. Newsmen, knowing that Elmer could not resist giving a plain answer, put him a few plain questions, and the whole thing began to come a little clearer...
...history student knows that in 1915 the Russians tried to cross the Carpathian Mountains into the plain of Hungary and that they were unsuccessful. Very few know that among the defenders was an Austrian infantry officer, Hans Kohn, who three decades later would be teaching government at the Harvard University Summer School. Though the Russians were turned back, he and his company were captured and were sent as prisoners of war to a summer Cossack camp in Turkestan...