Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lewis' United Mine Workers felt a vested interest in keeping R.M.F. alive. Every year, Lewmurken Inc. (the corporation that handles U.M.W.'s investment funds) sank more money into R.M.F. until, by 1941, the corporation had assumed all of Miss Roche's debt of $800.000, had virtual control of the company through its 23% bond holdings...
Sidney Franklin, 42, Brooklyn-born Mexican bullfighter of the '20s and never quite up to the Spanish big time, finally made it after nine years of virtual retirement. At Madrid's Plaza de Toros he ably dispatched two bulls, was hailed with shouts of "Viva America! Viva Truman...
...newest arms of Holland's rich, world-powerful N. V. Philips Gloeilampenfabrieken (Incandescent Lamp Works Co.), of Eindhoven. Back of North American Philips are $250 million in assets, brains, familiarity with cartel pricing agreements and patent pools that in a generation made Philips of Eindhoven virtual master of Europe's radio and light-bulb industry. N.A.P., born in 1942, is already a tough baby...
...Accuse documents the Kharkov war-criminal trials (TIME, Dec. 27, 1943) with the force of a pile driver. It shows the faces of the three virtual nobodies, "typical Nazis," and of the collaborationist Russian, a "miserable weakling," who stand accused. It shows the hideous photographs and testimonials of the atrocities, or kinds of atrocity,* to which the accused plead guilty. Even more overwhelming are shots of bereaved women as they touch and caress the wounds and the frozen feet of their dead; or the restrained but colossal grief and passion for retribution in the faces of the men & women...
Rangoon-in Burmese its name means "the end of the war"*-represented the virtual end of the Burma campaign and a good beginning toward greater victories...