Word: rosiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...report, taking the rosiest possible tone while sticking to Government-collected facts, was generally well received. But it apparently will have little effect on Congress, where efforts will be made in both houses to rewrite portions of the Price Control Act, including amendments to bar subsidies and to provide for direct court appeal from OPA rulings...
...Navy reported that it had won out in a great engineering adventure which has made U.S. warships, pound for pound, the most efficient craft on the seven seas. Its new high-pressure, high-temperature steam turbine has succeeded beyond its rosiest hopes. The new design...
...Manhattan the intelligentsia was in full cry. Asked the critics : Was this movie, which deliberately twisted fact and his tory to put the rosiest of all possible lights on U.S.-Soviet relations, the way to improve those relations? Was it fair and honest to present such a distortion of momentous events to the U.S. people as final truth? In unusual accord, critics, historians, columnists answered "No." Only all-out praise came from Communists. The New Masses thought it "just about a perfect film . . . [which] strips away the veils of illusions and lies." Daily Worker Columnist Mike Gold found it "about...
...railroads had not come to the rescue.* Year ago the rails hauled practically no oil to the Atlantic Seaboard and last October they hauled only 141,000 bbl. a day. Last week they hauled 435,000 bbl. daily-a new all-time record and 40% above the rosiest estimates...
This year Nazi sinkings have averaged 350,000 tons a month (1940 average: 295,800 tons). Ships are being torpedoed much faster than new ones are launched. The rosiest estimate of British building this year is 1,350,000 tons. Although shipbuilding is booming in the U. S. all the way from New England around the Gulf and to the West Coast, no more than 850,000-1,000,000 tons can be launched here this year; much of the activity is in new yards which must be completed themselves before any keels can be laid...