Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...behind him. Including Russia in the Lend-Lease pool does not mean that the U.S. can send any more help to the Russians than it is now sending. But as a diplomatic gesture, the President's act was of prime importance. It made Russia, like Britain, a virtual ally of the U.S. And in effect it guaranteed to Joseph Stalin that as long as Russia continues to resist, the flow of supplies from the U.S. will continue also...
Although he did not suggest a return to the League of Nations, Major Thomas proposed that some visible instrument of enforcement be set up to protect the mutual security that will prevail. He blasted the notion that sanctions might be effective, maintaining that it is a virtual impossibility to impose effective sanctions on a nation able to produce its own weapons...
...Detroit official of the A.F. of L. Building Trades Department. Had Mr. Carmody forgotten the stabilization agreement signed last summer by OPM and A.F. of L. Building Trades? In return for certain concessions, which included a promise to end work stoppages, OPM had granted A.F. of L. a virtual monopoly in the building field. Marred by a few wildcat strikes by a few undisciplined workers, the agreement had worked out pretty well, by & large. Was the Currier contract going to be allowed to spoil this happy state of affairs...
Once the Philharmonic had to keep careful count of expenditures such as 19? for wine for a lady soloist, but today it operates on a $1,000,000 budget. Since its merger in 1928 with the New York Symphony, it has a virtual monopoly of Manhattan's symphony concerts. But its audiences have fallen off since Maestro Arturo Toscanini left the orchestra in 1936. "The Old Man" well earned his $50,000 a year by his hard riding of the Philharmonic, which was then as fast and tautnerved as a fine race horse. Regular conductor now is a lightweight...
...ordered 20 tons of Buckingham Palace's railings and gates removed for conversion into armaments; promoted the Duke of Gloucester twice in one day, from air vice marshal to air marshal, from major general to lieutenant general. Belgium's King Leopold III, blond when he became a virtual prisoner of the Nazis in his own palace at Laeken, has turned grey. Lieut. Joseph Alsop Jr., ex-Washington columnist, resigned from the Navy, to work for Generalissimo Chiang in Chungking. Sumner Welles's son, Arnold, graduated from the Naval Reserve Officers' training school in The Bronx. Civilian...