Word: ruinously
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...chronic Latin-American surplus, in strong U.S. hands, might be managed. In weak hands it would be dumped, wreck everybody's market, and have to be exchanged for European products at ruinous rates of exchange...
...this ruinous situation most dealers blame tough local rationing boards, claim that they keep releases far below the law's legal limit. Thus when a busy New York doctor tried to swap his many-miled Studebaker for a 1942 model he was turned down flat. Reason: his old car was registered in his wife's name...
...palace in which the Viceroy waited last week : "Liberty will not descend to a people ; a people must raise themselves to Liberty." The case goes on to claim that Indian self-government must be extended gradually, that sudden granting of it would result in civil war, ruinous to India and all its relations...
Victory in Africa is imperative for the British. From a psychological aspect defeat would be ruinous. Britain has picked the field of battle and seized the initiative. For the first time since the war began she has gone into battle with equipment equal if not superior to that of the Germans. To lose under these conditions would be a severe setback to the psychological cause of the Allies. But a defeat in Libya would be equally disastrous for strategic reasons. This is a key step in the Battle of the Mediterranean. With the army of the Nile defeated Egypt would...
...American Legion struck Isolationism a ruinous blow last week-a ponderous, powerhouse, meat-ax crusher. The repercussions of the Legion's action in its 23rd annual convention would echo for many months in Congress, the press, the homes of U.S. citizens. In convention at Milwaukee the Legion...