Word: semis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tremendous demand" which still exists everywhere indicates that no serious downward spiral can begin at this time, Harris pointed out. "This demand will continue to exist, since we are still living in a semi-war economy," he said...
What is important, in this case, is the light, or rather shadow, that Hart's presence throws on the Free Enterprise Society. His views have been consistently expressed for many years, certainly since 1930, when he founded the National Economic Council, an organization which now publishes a semi-monthly newsletter devoted to such interesting considerations as a warning to every citizen to "possess himself of one or more guns, making sure that they are in good condition, that he and other members of his family know how to use them, and that he has a reasonable supply of ammunition." This...
...situation which had provoked the strikes was, at least in part, the fault of the Germans. Much of the food that could raise the workers' diet above its present semi-starvation level was either hoarded by German farmers or sold on the black market. Until the farmers met their food quotas, workers in Western Germany would go hungry. Last week, an emergency session of the Bizonal Economic Council (the highest German-run agency in the U.S.-British zone) passed a law to pry the food from the farm leaders. Henceforth, farmers and food handlers who failed to report...
Arthur W. ("One-Man Army") VVer-muth, who moved from wartime heroism to peacetime girl trouble to obscurity, reappeared in the news on skates, looking like a one-man hockey team (see cut). He was now taking a flier at goaltending for a semi-pro team in Wichita...
...enough that a newspaper describe the happenings in its own semi-isolated community. It must explore the outside world, and it must know thoroughly the points where the two domains touch. The undergraduate has only a short stay at Harvard, and his newspaper can take a stop in relating the college to what comes afterwards...