Word: virtually
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...groused that Pan Am's plans were a "pipe dream," that the rates were much too low. They pointed out that CAB opens hearings Sept. 18 on applications of some dozen other U.S. airlines and steamship lines for Latin American routes to cut into Pan Am's virtual monopoly; that Operator Trippe may be merely trying to choke them off before the hearings even start...
...prospective U.S. candidates for the red hat, two are virtual certainties: Archbishop Spellman and Chicago's Archbishop Samuel Alphonsus Stritch. Both, as a matter of fact, may now be Cardinals in petto, i.e., in the Pope's breast...
...with seven Lockheed Lodestars on his present line, George Baker has adopted more orthodox airline methods, made N.A.L. a solid, going concern. As such, its New York service will break potent Eastern Airline's 15-year virtual monopoly on the rich north-south run along the Atlantic Coast...
...soldiers, who had ap proved General Eisenhower's gamble on the weather, retreated from their first optimistic judgments of the invasion,, which were based on the relative ease with which all but one of the scheduled landings were accomplished, the low casualties, the slow ness of German reaction, the virtual absence of the Luftwaffe. Now, as the fight ing progressed, there was still no indica tion that casualties were becoming prohibitive. But there was every indication that the rate must be increasing...
...movie tycoons, representing, in effect, the U.S. and British movie industries, last week reached an important decision. Instead of fighting each other in world markets - wherein Hollywood now has a virtual monopoly and the British have high hopes - they agreed henceforth to lend each other a helping hand. This was top-rank international business news...