Word: purely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other peppermen arrived, Galbraith announced, "We are not going to let the shipping shortage bail out the speculators." Then he bluntly told the brokers they had two ways out: 1) a margin requirement of $1,000 per unit (33,600 lb.) instead of $350, and an end to pure speculation, or 2) an OPACS-imposed price ceiling "considerably below the current price." Cowed, the brokers gulped assent to the margin boost. Next day pepper prices dropped a cent to less than 6½? a Ib.-the sharpest drop in the four-year history of the pepper market...
...talk that cinemaddicts seldom hear-brilliant, provocative, richly comic. It is solidly backed up by a baker's dozen of superb acting performances. As the author's chief protagonist, lucent Wendy Killer (Pygmalion's Eliza Doolittle) is the Salvation Army major who believes that the pure in heart will inherit the earth, only to learn that the rich already...
Decoration & Character Sirs: You must have had many letters of praise for the series of masterly covers Ernest Hamlin Baker has made for TIME. Here is one more. What particularly gives me pleasure about them is the way Mr. Baker manages to combine pure decoration and first-class characterization...
...Zvonimir's rule were those of Croatia's broadest boundaries. The kingdom had an Adriatic coastline running from Fiume to Split and thrust inland almost to Belgrade. Croatian provincials have never forgotten that. Said the nationalistic Croatiapress in 1937: "Dalmatia, Herzegovina, Bosnia, Slavonia and Croatia ... are pure Croatian provinces and the Croatian people have the sole right to them...
...only 7% of the East's oil last year. In that effort they have lost valuable time bucking the railroads, who lobby against pipelines just as resolutely as they used to wreck them in the oil wars of the '80s. Their most successful lobby is in Georgia. Pure Oil and Gulf, trying to run a line from Port St. Joe in Florida to Chattanooga, laid pipe on much of the route, but could not get permission to close the gaps across the railroads' rights...