Word: semis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Cabinet decreed a "capital mobilization plan," bringing all finance, industry, production and distribution under Government control. All financial institutions will be organized into a single body with the Bank of Japan as the nucleus. Private financing will be forbidden. A semi-compulsory national-savings plan will be inaugurated. Control of stock exchanges and money markets will be tightened. Available capital will be allocated "rationally" by the Government. At this news the Stockmarket went from a sag into a slump...
...locomotive boiler. Some of these writers have suggested that China's Red Army, by superior organization, popularity, and whirlwind guerrilla tactics, has been the major factor in keeping the Japanese at bay, while other writers have shown Chiang Kai-shek as gradually changing from the dictatorial leader of semi-fascist Blue Shirts to a fatuous boy scout pottering around in Chungking with that New Life Movement which caused W.H.Auden and Christopher Isherwood so many suppressed giggles (Journey to a War: TIME...
Before last week's tournament, Pancho had played in three spring tune-ups: he won the coveted old Brooklyn champion ship (defeating onetime Czech Davis Cup per Ladislav Hecht in the final) ; reached the semi-finals (where he took two sets from onetime Wimbledon Champion Sid ney Wood) of the Orange (N.J.) Invitation Tournament...
...desert, through the mountains, came at last into the thirsty streets of Pasadena, 225 miles away. The Colorado had not changed its course. The cool stream flowing over the desert and through the mountains was a man-made river, a giant aqueduct created to carry water to the semi-arid cities of Southern California's coastal plain...
Just how Spanish bishops are to be chosen, under the new informal, unwritten agreement between the Holy See and Dictator Franco, was revealed last week by a semi-official Vatican news agency. The Vatican will '"suggest" three names for any episcopal vacancy-there are now 18-and Dictator Franco will select one, pass it back to the Holy Father. "This accord," said the agency, "guarantees to the Holy See freedom of choice...