Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Finally the University conceded to make a slight wage increase, and agreed to a preferential rather than a closed shop. The furor ended with the preferential shop becoming a virtual closed shop as a large number of employees switched...
Your cash serves a four-fold purpose. First, it gives you virtual immunity from the trials and tribulations of avoiding Boston Community Fund agents when they start their annual drive in November. Your Student Council gift is your Community Fund Pledge...
...efficient, heavy movement of goods from Russia to Germany, Russia's railroads would need virtual rebuilding as their gauge is now wider than the German. Enormous quantities of new rolling stock would also be essential to replace the present rickety equipment...
...Britain and its Empire, with the probable invasion of the British Isles this summer, at least an all-out destruction of communications, factories, shipping and harbor facilities. He wanted to convince the British that if Russia accepted the German demands, it would result in a virtual fighting alliance between Russia and Germany against the English-speaking and anti-Communistic world-an alliance which would destroy both...
...week's end. Labor's Non-Partisan League (John L. Lewis, chairman) groaned: "In a virtual tidal wave of reaction the Administration sponsored legislation that advances far along the totalitarian path of forced labor. . . . Unless the events of this terrible week can be reversed, it is clear that American democracy will soon become just another museum piece to be set on a shelf beside the former democracies of the Old World...