Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...giant Krupp's 300 buildings in the Essen region, 200 were so badly damaged as to force complete shutdowns. Virtual demolition of one truck-assembly plant probably cost the German Army between 750 and 1,000 trucks. A large locomotive shop was destroyed by fire, which means that by September the Nazis will be missing about 150 badly needed locomotives which they might otherwise have...
...months the Communists have grown from virtual oblivion (they were banned from 1934 to July 23, 1942) to challenge the Hindu Mahasabha as India's third strongest political party. Their internal program is for land division, higher wages, a breaking down of all restrictions of caste, creed and custom. Externally their policy is basically anti-imperialist, but to Joshi, trading British imperialism for Japanese slavery is foolish. The average age of party members is 27. Claimed membership: 16,000 regular party members, 400,000 peasant "supporters," 39,000 students...
...National Catholic Welfare Conference in Washington charged that Russia was holding 2,000,000 Poles "as virtual hostages," and that Soviet officials had been confiscating relief packages sent to Polish internees in Russia by U.S. citizens...
Died. Frank Clayton Ball, 85, fruit-jar tycoon; in Muncie, Ind.* When the Mason jar patent expired in 1883, the Brothers Ball (Frank, Edmund, George, William and Lucius) turned from fish kits to glass preserving jars, acquired a virtual monopoly in manufacturing them, became one of the Midwest's wealthiest families. Aged Frank, who spent his summers in Leland, Mich., commuted to work by plane...
...Pacific across which the U.S. would hesitate to send an all-out amphibian invasion, knowing what carrier and land-based forces were able to do to such an invasion when the Japs tried to take Midway. To the north there is a temporary security which rests on the virtual certainty that Russia would not be willing to let the U.S. move on Japan over her soil-at least until after the defeat of Hitler. To the west, the mass of China could well base hostile air and land forces, but China is of limited use to Japan's enemies...