Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...machine-gun outlook. Colt, the only U. S. builder, is working almost full time for the British. Three General Motors plants are tooling up to plug the gap, but quantity production of machine guns is a year to 14 months away. The Army is now getting 2,000 Garand semi-automatic rifles a week, confidently expects 5,000 weekly by Jan. 1, 1941, but at that rate it would require four years to turn out a million rifles...
...world was taking sides in a mighty battle of continents. There was order in all the moves. The battle lines were now clearly drawn between free capitalism and autarchy, between the semi-democracies and the totalitarians, between what Publisher Howard called the Have Gots and the Have Nots. Against the 250,000,000 people Joachim von Ribbentrop boasted of, the British Empire and China had 959,000,000. The U. S. and South America had another 200,000,000. In resources the Have Nots were outmatched. In immediate war power they were far superior...
California's best bet was 19-year-old Betty Hicks of Long Beach, a stick-at-it-ive little upstart who had reached the semi-finals of last year's National, had twice drubbed Champion Jameson in Florida tournaments last winter. Another favorite daughter was willowy, 21-year-old Clara Callender, who had played the Pebble Beach course since she was knee-high, was State champion at 17, recently set a new Pebble Beach record (74) for women...
Soon after Repeal, licensed New York retailers formed the Council, whose 900 members are 80% of the city's stores, half all those in the State. Already semi-monopolies because of State licensing laws, councilmen saw a chance to make real money when the Feld-Crawford Act was passed. Negotiating with the distillers, they obtained a uniform 40% retail markup, a 4 to 20% discount for large purchases besides. Under this scheme Council members could buy $1 liquor from the distiller for as little as 80?, resell it for $1.40, while their operating costs averaged less than...
...championship after the jinx of winning the medal. But deadeye Dick Chapman, who has majored in golf most of his life, was determined to win the U. S. title this year. Three times he had reached the quarter-finals of the British Amateur, two years ago he reached the semi-finals of the U. S. Amateur...