Word: virtual
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...March 24, Aldrich Durant '02, business manager of the University, signed a contract with Stefant and the Waitresses' Union which makes Harvard, the employer, virtual policeman for labor. Beginning on April 30, the University will make union members pay their dues by using the force of dismissal...
...after it had to repossess two big fleets at a loss of $1,000,000. Next year it sold its Manhattan operating company (Terminal) at another $733,000 loss. Soon Checker Cab Manufacturing Co. was left the only important manufacturer in the field. But even Checker, with a virtual monopoly on production, had dizzy ups & downs...
Thursday night Regent Prince Paul called a meeting of his Cabinet, the first in nearly five months, to announce the terms of Germany's virtual ultimatum. Yugoslavia's handsome, youthful Regent is personally friendly toward Great Britain, but he is not made of the same tough stuff as was his late cousin, King Alexander, and unlike Alexander he has tried hard to placate the autonomy-minded Croats. Against the virtual certainty of losing Croatia and its neighbors if the German demands were resisted, Prince Paul advised their acceptance. His Premier, Dragisha Cvetkovitch, and Foreign Minister Aleksandar Cincar-Markovitch...
Berlin declared within 72 hours that a speedboat had sunk a British destroyer; "newly unleashed submarines commanded by virtual novices" had destroyed 192,300 tons of merchant shipping; airplanes had sunk and disabled 16 ships of 102,000 tons west of Ireland and five others of 23,500 tons off the east coast of England and Scotland...
...less optomistic side was McLaughlin, who reminded his listeners that feeding Belgium would only build up the health of what Germany has made a virtual slave population. He feels that the ruthless tactics of Hitler are more effective in controlling the captive nations than American food...