Word: pricelessly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of them were Navy-trained, but all were plain mad at his undiplomatic handling. Result: only five A.V.G. men stayed on with the China Air Force. Many, priceless assets in the defense of an area that few airmen knew, went home...
...this situation, airmen say, it is always Chennault who comes off second best, since Bissell, too, has a war on his hands in Burma. Result, as Chennault's men see it, is that the priceless opportunity Chennault has for knocking out the Japs' pivotal air bases and attacking their commerce on the South China Sea is now being wasted as thoroughly as it was last summer...
...Chicago's philanthropic Rosenwald family, identified with Sears, Roebuck for half a century, have long been generous supporters of the university. Onetime Chairman Julius Rosenwald was responsible for Sears's acquisition of the Britannica in 1920, when it was in such bad financial straits that its priceless plates were about to be sold at auction. What made the deal especially interesting was what Bob Hutchins did not tell about...
...best the system is working on a week to week basis, since a commodity available in quantity one week is priceless the next. Meat and butter have been the latest victims of war shortages. Recently a steward planned to have roast beef for a House dinner. The order was placed and the menu printed, when the dealer announced that he could only procure lamb. Even Boston's great staple, seafood, is becoming scarce as the war intrudes upon the activities of offshore fishermen...
...cautious as to what the U.S. can give Brazil now in the way of machine tools which Brazil needs if she is to increase her industrial output immediately. But in terms of the future the prospectus goes the limit-provided that Brazil can get from the U.S. one priceless intangible: technical skill and know-how; and one tangible: capital equipment. How she is to get these two things, and whether her development will involve American private enterprise or will be a huge Government project, Engineer Cooke leaves extremely vague. All he would say as he packed his bags...