Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...refused to ask Adolf Hitler to form a Government, Prophet Schacht said, "There is only one man who can be Chancellor at this period and he is Adolf Hitler. If Hitler does not become Chancellor now, he will within four months" (TIME, Dec. 5). Herr Hitler became Chancellor and virtual dictator exactly 66 days later...
What has happened during the Depression is that the nation's primary school system, on which depends the whole rest o' American education, has suffered far more than any of its brother systems and far more than most people realize. With, virtual chaos reigning in state and municipal economics, the teachers of primary schools have had their numbers reduced, their salaries cut or suspended, their facilities seriously impaired. Many a rural school has been discontinued and many a needed building plan has been scrapped. In fact a reliable federal survey has shown that 9,500,000 children in the nation...
...Recent Social Trends (published Tan. 2. 1933), Vol. 1. Chapter 6, by Ralph G. liurlin and Meredith B. Givins. Thorstein Yeblen: Theory of Business Enterprise, 1904; The Instinct of Workmanship, 1918: 7 he Place of Science in Modern Civilization, 1910; The Engineers & the Price System, 1921. Frederick Soddy: Wealth, Virtual Wealth & Debt, 1926. Fred Henderson: Economic Consequences of Power Production, 1931. Alvin Harvey Hansen: Economic Stabilisation in an Unbalanced World, 1932. Paul H. Douglas & Aaron Director: Problem of Unemployment, 1931. Leon P. Alford: In Recent Economic Chanties, 1926, Chapter 2; Leo Wolman in Recent Economic Chanties, Chapter 6; also George...
...billion rubles (nominally worth 50? each) will not buy an exit visa; and of course Russians in Russia cannot earn valuta, can earn only rubles. Thus the new decree means that to leave his country a Russian will have to appeal to people outside for foreign money, virtual "head money" paid to the Soviet State for his release...
...until after March 4, the decision which has apparently been made to postpone the conference until March or April is a wise one. While some of the monetary problems are largely non-political in nature, the larger issues at stake, the mitigation of world depression and the termination of virtual economic war, are bound up with national political policies. They depend for their solution upon a cooperative attitude on the part of this country, upon Mr. Roosevelt's sincerity in advocating reciprocal tariffs, and upon a showdown in the present war debt deadlock...