Word: outright
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Entrepreneur Myers began promoting a deal: let little TVA buy Nebraska's private utility systems outright, finance the purchase by a bond issue of about $90,000,000. Banker Myers tied up with young Paul H. Nitze, a former officer of Dillon, Read & Co., arranged a nationwide syndicate to market the bonds. The first Nebraska utility man Mr. Myers interviewed practically threw him out. But back in Wall Street the holding-company financiers who run utilitydom were seeing the handwriting on the wall in Wendell Willkie's losing fight against big TVA. A few judicious telephone calls soon...
...been played by Hitler & Co. on those German capitalists and small businessmen who once backed National Socialism as a means of saving Germany's bourgeois economic structure from radicalism. The Nazi credo that the individual belongs to the state also applies to business. Some businesses have been confiscated outright, on others what amounts to a capital tax has been levied. Profits have been strictly controlled. Some idea of the increasing Governmental control and interference in business could be deduced from the fact that 80% of all building and 50% of all industrial orders in Germany originated last year with...
...Christ's coming had been meant to save, the age which had vainly taken his name for nearly 2,000 years, were a world and an age in which Christ's Gospel was met, nearly everywhere and nearly always, with lip service, pagan indifference, subtle hostility or outright persecution. Symptomatic was a Nazi decree that in Germany Christmas was to be celebrated in "Germanic" rather than Christian fashion, that religion was to be kept out of public Yule exercises...
Fortnight ago Chairman Alfred P. Sloan Jr. of General Motors Corp. told a Senate committee that "America's production plant is obsolete," that industry should be stimulated to substitute new machines for old, thus increase production and lower prices (TIME, Dec. 19). But outright expansion, rather than improvement, is industry's usual objective. When consumer demand rises, new plants are built to increase production; then recession nips demand and the new plants are not needed. In the case of the Irvin Works, Big Steel was operating at around 90% of capacity when it broke ground...
British editors who print anti-Munich or anti-Chamberlain opinions were thus pointed at scornfully as nestfoulers. In France, where the journalistic roost is messy indeed because of the old French practice of outright bribes to newspapers, Premier Edouard Daladier was reported to have proposed to his Cabinet specific measures to "correct many of the evils existing under our unrestricted freedom of the press." Most French papers have accommodated the Government by suppressing the more unpleasant facts about the recent Nazi pogrom. A general toning down of all references to Adolf Hitler & Germany was last week believed to be part...