Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Instanter Dave Beck declared war, ordering his teamsters to cease trucking all goods handled by the Bridges longshoremen-a virtual embargo of the entire San Francisco waterfront. Exceptions were made for such things as perishables and Government orders. Soon settled and forgotten was the original warehousemen-California Packing squabble. For pugnacious Dave Beck it had served its purpose as a labor Sarajevo. What started as a local warehouse squabble was by last week a major labor battle, involving the whole of San Francisco, threatening the whole Pacific Coast...
...refiners. After meditating last week at Hyde Park, he decided that discretion was the better part of principle-simultaneously signed the Sugar Bill and denounced it, indignantly insisting that a sound measure had been "seriously impaired in its value by the inclusion of a provision designed to legalize a virtual monopoly in the hands of a small group of seaboard refiners." He added: "I am approving the bill with what amounts to a gentleman's agreement that the unholy alliance between the cane and beet growers on the one hand, and the seaboard refining monopoly on the other...
Until recently Hamilton has had a virtual monopoly of the propeller business. Lately, however, it and its most formidable rival, famed old Curtiss-Wright Corp., have been seeking another propeller improvement-full feathering of the blades. Curtiss-Wright devised an electric motor which nestles in the hub of the propeller and changes the pitch to any angle from o° to 90° whenever the pilot wishes. If an engine fails, the pilot merely adjusts the propeller pitch to 90°, which means that the blades feather (present a streamlined knife-edge to the wind), do not revolve. This...
...Passed, 37 to 26, a bill permitting helium to be sold abroad in "nonmilitary" quantities, thus making the non-inflammable gas ( a virtual U. S. monopoly) available to foreign dirigibles like the late ill-fated Hindenburg...
...death of their leader. Practical considerations moved other Democrats to feel that the death of Senator Robinson might be a political good fortune for the President, not only giving him the opportunity to appoint anyone he wished to the Supreme Court instead of Senator Robinson who had a virtual claim on the one existing vacancy, but also because dropping the Court fight might prevent a permanent split in the party. The speech of Hatton Sumners, which the House had so vigorously applauded, was full of such sentiments...