Word: preferably
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This proposal runs smack into trouble from the industrial alcohol industry because only 40% of the whiskey distillers are equipped to make 190-proof alcohol. The other 60% can make only 140-proof, which would then have to be raised to 190 by the industrial alcohol producers, who much prefer their present, more profitable, sugar-into-alcohol conversion. The proposal also runs into the internal revenue laws on alcohol production (which are, however, being revised) and into more transportation problems, since the low-proof distilleries are in the East and Southeast, the high-proof plants mainly in the Midwest...
...road tour, has to compete with the previous showing of the picture of the same name and cast. Recognizing the odds against a legitimate show trying to buck a movie version, Victor Moore, in a curtain speech, expresses the gratitude of the company for the many theatre goers who "prefer round actors to flat ones...
...tune The White Cliffs of Dover, most popular song in England; even Chicago pinball machines in London's penny arcades. The Briton-in-the-street, from constantly gazing at the menus of Hollywood, believed Americans the most fabulous doers and makers of all time. He would always prefer his Britain, just as it was; but some day he would like to see America for himself...
...Correctly pronounced, its first syllable rhymes with "palm." Most people prefer to rhyme it with...
...successes in Asia. They noted that Japs are not white men. But U.S. Negroes did no cheering for Japan. As individuals, U.S. Negroes were bitterly, resignedly or indifferently conscious that the realities of U.S. life still barred them from full equality of citizenship. Nevertheless, most of them would still prefer to be potential citizens of a fighting democracy than the slaves of a conquering dictatorship...