Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Zealand officials, sent as administrators to Samoa, raised their own salaries, emptied the Treasury, set up a virtual monopoly in copra. For paying the natives a higher price for copra than the New Zealand Syndicate, one J. Nelson, millionaire South Sea trader, operator of So trading stations, was hustled aboard a steamer, deported from Samoa...
Living above a cigar store is only one of President Hipölito Irigoyen's minor idiosyncrasies. Aged 76, he looks about 60. He quit law school as a young man to become a cattle rancher, became independently wealthy before entering politics. Twice elected President (1916 & 1928) he is today virtual dictator of the Argentine. Because of his beef income, he gives his salary to charity. He has been aptly called a "Radical Autocrat...
...March must come a showdown. Though Argentina is prosperous, though President Irigoyen's Radical Party has a virtual strangle hold on the country, half of the Chamber of Deputies must be re-elected at the March elections. Much of unique Irigoyen's strength comes from the country districts and Argentine farmers are glowering under a bad wheat crop, a crop which left them with an exportable surplus of less than 2,000,000 tons (66.6 million bushels), about half as much as the Ministry of Agriculture's early predictions...
...addition to its carrier service (in which it has a virtual monopoly) Pullman also engages in the manufacture and sale of passenger and freight cars. Last week it arranged to strengthen its dominant position in this field by absorbing Standard Steel Car Co. and its affiliated Osgood-Bradley Car Co. From this merger Pullman would diversify its production to include street railway cars, steel forgings, grey iron castings, as well as increase its railroad car production...