Word: thoroughly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Calling to his office 19 reporters (including one from the Tribune), handsome, pugnacious Howard O. Hunter, Assistant Administrator who bosses 1,250,000 WPA clients in 13 Midwest States, gave the Tribune a thorough tongue-lashing for "filthy editorializing" and "vicious propaganda." Then he handed each man a 25-sheet mimeographed release stuffed with facts and affidavits backing his main charge: in every case "in which specific persons or locations are named . . . every statement published by the Tribune was found to be false...
Said the physicians: "There are perhaps some circumstances which might justify the use of exchange transfusions in the human species. However, application to human subjects should be considered only after a thorough study of the technique and full appreciation of the many attendant dangers...
...never paid its $4 preferred in full. Last year the road piled up a $902,363 deficit. Had it been operating under the ICC-approved reorganization, it would have earned only 1.4% on its capitalization. This fact presumably prompted Commissioner Mahaffie to dissent again, ask for a more thorough revamping. Said he: "The majority approve a plan that cuts obligatory interest severely and to a basis that in the past would . . . have been adequately covered. But the plan now approved is for the future. ... A new structure should protect creditor claims to earnings as far as is practicable. ... It should...
...temporarily air-sated readers even mildly interested in the twelfth transatlantic flight in the past month (Lufthansa's four-motored Focke-Wulf "Condor" Brandenburg, from Berlin to New York City and return), newspapers were obliged to run banner headlines about SECRECY. Even this ruse failed to excite thorough readers. Day before, they had seen an Associated Press dispatch announcing the exact hour of departure, predicting the time of arrival within three hours...
...island, it finally looked as though the suspect would have to stand trial. Prodded by a three-month-old act of Cuban Strongman Batista's docile legislature, a subsidiary of the Atlantic Refining Co. spurred its crews of U. S. geologists and drillers engaged in a thorough investigation of vast concessions. Close on their heels were Sinclair Cuba Oil Co. and Royal Dutch Co. operatives...