Word: semi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Jewish problem was solved through the simple arrangement of ghettos, the idea of a Jewish reservation, along with a semi-autonomous Polish State, having been abandoned. Jews over 10 were required to wear a white arm band four inches wide bearing a blue Star of David. Two years of labor service were obligatory for all male Jews...
...their preferences for radio shows. The radio industry thinks not. It depends for estimates of the popularity of its programs largely upon the Cooperative Analysis of Broadcasting, which gathers material for its statistical studies solely by telephone queries. Last week radio bigwigs pored over a C. A. B. semi-annual report which offered a box score for the period October 1939-April 1940. Some of C. A. B.'s findings...
Industrial v. Craft? No. A. F. of L has 29 semi-industrial unions and 19 trade unions. C. I. O. has six semi-industrial and four trade unions. The jurisdictional fight that brought about the split has become meaningless...
...hinterland for the first time was the name of Macy, whose three present branches operate under their former owners' names. Announced for two or three months hence was the debut of "Macy's of Syracuse," N.Y., a streamlined, semi-self-service, all-merchandise-on-the-counter downtown shop. Located between a Woolworth's and a Kresge's, it will offer for cash only "soft goods" (clothing, accessories, linen, etc.)-fast-selling items already tested in the New York store...
Thus did the Vatican, which has sought & found a modus vivendi with every victorious power except atheistic Soviet Russia, move to align itself with the new order in Europe. In an equally significant gesture to the southern Axis partner it announced that the semi-official Vatican newsorgan Osservatore Romano would cease publication. Banned outside Vatican City by the Italian Government because it printed British war communiques, it has lost circulation as rapidly as it gained it last autumn, when Romans discovered its unique (in Italy) impartiality (TIME, May 27). Osservatore Romano will be replaced by a Jesuit-owned paper, Corriere...